BC Notice to End Tenancy (RTB Forms)
Also known as: Notice to End Tenancy · RTB-32 · RTB-30 · RTB-29 · Three month eviction notice · 10-day eviction notice
The Residential Tenancy Branch forms a BC landlord must use to end a tenancy, each with its own grounds and notice period. RTB-30 covers cause at one month and RTB-29 unpaid rent at ten days. RTB-32 handles landlord or purchaser use, and since June 2025 both give three months.
BC eviction notices come on prescribed forms. A landlord cannot draft their own, and for a personal-use notice they cannot hand-fill one either: it has to be generated through the Residential Tenancy Branch portal.
Each form carries its own grounds, notice period, service requirements and dispute window. For cause and for unpaid rent that window is short. For personal use it is twenty-one days, whoever is moving in, and it was thirty for the landlord case until June 2025.
An eviction notice served on the wrong form, or without supporting documentation, fails. A personal-use notice on form RTB-32 requires the landlord, or the buyer in a sale with vacant possession, to actually occupy the unit for at least 12 consecutive months — failure entitles the displaced tenant to compensation of 12 months' rent. Since July 18, 2024 (Bill 14 amendments) the personal-use notice must be served via the BC RTB online web portal — paper notices delivered in person are no longer valid for personal-use grounds. Also: sale-with-vacant-possession buyers should verify the seller has actually served the proper RTB-32 notice through the portal, with the proper notice period, before subject removal. Many BC tenancy disputes arise from sloppy notice practice.
| Form | Ground | Notice period |
|---|---|---|
| RTB-29 | Unpaid rent or utilities | 10 days |
| RTB-30 | Cause, such as repeated late rent or breach of a material term | 1 month |
| RTB-32L | Landlord or a close family member moving in | 3 months |
| RTB-32P | Purchaser moving in | 3 months |
Related terms
- BC Residential Tenancy Act (SBC 2002, c. 78) — The BC Residential Tenancy Act (SBC 2002, c.
- RTA Bill 14 (2024) — Personal-Use Eviction Reform — A personal-use eviction in BC takes three months of notice and gives the tenant 21 days to dispute it, whoever is moving in.
- BC Annual Rent Cap — The maximum allowable annual rent increase for existing BC tenancies, set yearly by the Residential Tenancy Branch — 2.
- Short-Term Rental Accommodations Act — BC legislation limiting short-term rentals to the home the operator actually lives in, plus one secondary suite or accessory dwelling on the same lot.
See also
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BC RTA Bill 14 (2024) — Personal-use eviction reform — Bronson Job PREC, BC Real Estate Codex (2026-08-02). https://www.bronsonjob.com/codex#bc.rta.bill14_2024_personal_use_eviction
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- BC Governmentretrieved 2026-08-02Types of evictions — landlord or purchaser usehttps://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/housing-tenancy/residential-tenancies/ending-a-tenancy/evictions/types-of-evictions
- Otherretrieved 2026-08-09BC Financial Services Authority — Further Amendments to Notice to End Tenancy Requirements for Home Purchasershttps://www.bcfsa.ca/industry-resources/real-estate-professional-resources/knowledge-base/advisory/further-amendments-notice-end-tenancy-requirements-home-purchasers
The regulator advisory to licensees on the 2024-08-21 change to 3 months / 21 days for a purchaser use. bcfsa.ca is blocked by this environment's egress policy; the 2026-08-09 correction was made on converging secondary summaries of this advisory and the Residential Tenancy Branch page rather than by reading them directly.
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