HALIFAX—Nova Scotia renters no longer need permission from landlords to switch from a year-to-year to a month-to-month lease after updates to a provincial law came into effect last week. The same is not true for fixed-term leases, which still require a signed agreement between the tenant and landlord to change the terms. On changing the process for switching to a month-to-month lease, Wohler said “landlords weren’t really supposed to unreasonably withhold consent anyway.” “But I think it’s a positive change. Unlike Wohler, Russell was satisfied with how landlords can now deal with abandoned property. He would have liked to see landlords maintain control over changing the terms of a lease from year-to-year to month-to-month.

Source: thestar July 03, 2019 21:45 UTC