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By statute, there are several types of notices that a landlord can serve on a tenant if the tenant commits a breach of their Residential Rental Agreement or when the landlord wishes to terminate the tenancy. If your Residential Rental Agreement with the tenant specifies something different, you would want to use the longer notice period.

Most of these notices can be used in periodic tenancies (such as a month-to-month tenancy) as well as a lease for the term (such as a 12-month lease) but under different circumstances. Please be aware that some notices can only be used in periodic tenancies, while others can only be used in leases for term.

Most of the notice types cannot be used in a lease for over one year unless the landlord and tenant agree in writing, usually in the Rental Agreement, that specifies that the landlord can serve either a 5-day or 14-day Notice, which we refer to as the “saving language.”

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