The Residential Tenancies Act governs the relationship between landlord and tenant. More specifically, it governs the relationships between people renting a place as a home. The Residential Tenancies Act does not govern the relationships created when renting a commercial place, and it does not govern the relationships of people renting mobile home sites. The Residential Tenancies Act affects hundreds of thousands of people living in Alberta, more than one quarter of all households in the province are rented.

This document provides a brief review of our publication Residential Tenancies Act, Before and During a Tenancy, Issues Paper 7. Issues Paper 7, like the one before it, does not make any recommendations to change the law. It analyses and lists issues that are present before people rent a home, when people are entering into an agreement to rent a home, and during the time people are in a residential tenancy. This document provides a summary of some of the issues discussed in Issues Paper 7.