“At-fault” reasons to terminate a tenancy include when a tenant:
- Fails to pay rent
- Breaches rental agreement
- Tenant commits illegal activity
- Unlawful use of premises
- Tenant is maintaining the unit as a nuisance
- Commits waste of the unit
- Refuses to enter a substantially similar new lease
- Sublets in violation of the lease
- Fails to vacate if fired by landlord and lodging was part of the job
- Fails to give access to landlord
- Fails to deliver possession of unit after notifying owner that tenant would deliver.
Landlord can terminate a tenancy without cause (“no-fault”) when:
- Owner wants to remove a unit from the rental market
- Owner or family member wants to occupy unit
- Substantial rehabilitation to the unit is needed for health and safety purposes
- Government or court ordered unit to be vacated
Owner may not terminate a tenancy in retaliation of the tenant exercising their rights under the Ordinance