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[Music] as the cost of living skyrockets across the country it's hard for montreal not to follow that trend quebec has rules to protect renters but in order for them to be applied you have to be a pretty savvy tenant wading through misinformation bureaucracy and even language barriers when learning about your rights advocates and lawyers say the more you know the more you can contribute to keeping the city affordable so we're going to dive into some questions you might not even know that you should be asking as a tenant in quebec [Music] does my landlord have to show me the previous tenant's rent yes the previous tenants rent should be provided under section g on your lease so right here and sometimes landlords will leave this section blank if you discover that your rent is drastically higher than what the previous tenant paid you have two months from discovering that evidence to apply to the tribunal administrative delegma which is the administrative court in quebec that oversees rental issues you can apply to them for a hearing to fix the rent we'll get into how and why a landlord can increase the rent in a sec but typically they have to follow a formula for calculating an increase and can only do so once per year for example the landlord has to give three months notice for modifying the lease in any way including a rent increase before a year-long lease is up for renewal and it's a bit less than that for shorter leases [Music] do i have to accept my rent increase no you can reject a rent increase and renew your lease you have one month to respond to the rent increase notice but make sure to respond in writing after they get your refusal your landlord has one month to either negotiate a lower rent with you or to apply to fix the rent at the tribunal at the hearing the judge will decide if your landlord's increase is justified based largely on a calculation of municipal and school taxes and if work was done either on the building or on your dwelling you can ask for receipts and the breakdown of that calculation if you don't refuse the increase you have two other options either you end your lease and you move or if you don't respond it's assumed that you've accepted the increase and any other modifications to the lease and it's renewed automatically if your landlord didn't do any repairs or renovations on the building the typical increase in quebec is of about one to two percent and if they did for example for about ten thousand dollars of work or repairs done on your unit that would be about a twenty dollar increase work done on the building as a whole comes up to less because it's split by the number of units remember you have a right to contest any modification to a lease and that includes...