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Tenant Obligations to repais and maintain
As a reminder to all tenants the following are general guidelines and responsibilities in accordance with many Residential Tenancy Acts as it relates to maintaining your suite. It is important for all tenants to understand and adhere to these guidelines.
- A tenant must maintain reasonable health, cleanliness and sanitary standards throughout the rental unit and the other residential property to which the tenant has access.
- A tenant of a rental unit must repair damage to the rental unit or common areas that is caused by the actions or neglect of the tenant or a person permitted on the residential property by the tenant.
- The tenant is responsible for periodic cleaning of the carpets to maintain reasonable standards of cleanliness. Where the tenant has deliberately or carelessly stained the carpet he or she will be held responsible for cleaning the carpet.
- The landlord is not expected to clean the internal window coverings during the tenancy unless something unusual happens, like a water leak, which is not caused by the tenant.
- The tenant is keep the internal window coverings clean.
- The tenant is responsible for cleaning the inside windows and tracks during his or her tenancy, including removing mould.
The tenant is responsible for cleaning the inside and outside of the balcony doors, windows and tracks during the tenancy.
- The tenant is responsible for washing scuffmarks, finger prints, etc. off the walls unless the texture of the wall prohibited wiping.
- The tenant must pay for repairing walls where there are an excessive number of nail holes, or large nails, or screws or tape have been used and left wall damage from hang pictures or any other items on walls.
- The tenant is responsible for all deliberate or negligent damage to the walls.
- The tenant must wipe or vacuum baseboards and baseboard heaters to remove dust and dirt.
- The tenant must not prevent the smoke alarm from working by taking out batteries and leaving them out, or by replacing them with batteries that are dead or the wrong size. For his or her own safety and the safety of others, the tenant must tell the landlord when a smoke alarm needs new batteries, or that it seems to need to be repaired or replaced.
- The tenant is responsible for Replacing light bulbs in his or her premises during the tenancy, Replacing standard fuses in their unit (e.g. stove), unless caused by a problem with the stove or electrical system,
- The tenant must get the landlord's approval, in writing, before installing a security system or alarm. The tenant, who has installed an alarm system, and then moves out, must either leave the system in the unit; or remove the system and repair any damage caused to the unit during installation or removal.
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