LD25-228

Landlord application · security deposit, rent arrears. Outcome: granted. I find that the Tenant must pay the Landlord rent owing, in the amount of $4,396.77. [4] The Landlord will keep the Tenant’s security deposit, including interest, in the amount of $1,112.88. [5] The Tenant will pay the Landlord the rent owing balance of $3,283.89 by the timeline

Linked prior order: LD25-227

Order text

Order of The Director of Residential Tenancy
Docket 25-370 June 24, 2025
INTRODUCTION
[1] This decision determines an application filed with the Residential Tenancy Office (“Rental Office”) under the Residential Tenancy Act (“Act”).
[2] The Landlord seeks an order against the Tenant for rent owing in the amount of $4,396.77.
DISPOSITION
[3] I find that the Tenant must pay the Landlord rent owing, in the amount of $4,396.77.
[4] The Landlord will keep the Tenant’s security deposit, including interest, in the amount of $1,112.88.
[5] The Tenant will pay the Landlord the rent owing balance of $3,283.89 by the timeline below.
BACKGROUND
[6] The Unit is a one-bedroom, one-bathroom basement unit in a single-family dwelling, owned by the Landlord.
[7] On January 4, 2025 the parties signed a written, fixed-term tenancy agreement for the Unit from January 5, 2025 to April 30, 2025. Rent of $1,450.00 is due on the first day of the month. A security deposit of $1,100.00 was paid on January 4, 2025.
[8] On April 19, 2025 the Landlord served the Tenant with a Form 4(A) Eviction Notice with an effective date of April 30, 2025 (“Notice”) for non-payment of April rent, in the amount of $1,450.00, disturbing others and failure to comply with a material term of the tenancy agreement.
[9] The particulars of termination on the Notice stated:
“Your Tenancy agreement which you have signed state that you will empty the apartment at the end of lease agreement if both parties did not signed the new agreement which is suppose to be ending on 30th April 2025 copy of the clause attached with the notice and I am not ok with signing the new agreement due to following reasons. 1. Even after telling you that the lady who created the scene in the apartment on Feb 11th 2025 is not allowed on property and you are again and again getting her on the property. 2. You roam nude in common areas of the house which is not acceptable. 3. Nonpayment of the rent. (Verbal
notice was given on 28th March 2025 and email Notice was given on 5th April 2025).”
[10] On May 12, 2025 the Landlord filed a Form 2(B) Landlord Application to Determine Dispute (“Application”) with the Rental Office seeking vacant possession of the Unit and for Sheriff Services to put the Landlord in possession, which is the subject of Order LD25-227. The Application was amended on May 22, 2025 and also seeks rent owing, which is the subject of this decision. The Landlord served the Tenant with a copy of the Application and the amended Application.
[11] On June 3, 2025 the Rental Office mailed and emailed the parties notice of a teleconference hearing scheduled for June 24, 2025. The Landlord also taped a copy to the Unit’s front door.
[12] On June 16, 2025 the Rental Office emailed the parties a 71-page PDF and 9-video-recording evidence package.

[13] On June 24, 2025 the Landlord joined the teleconference hearing for determination of the Application. I telephoned the Tenant but the telephone number was not in service. I emailed the Tenant with the teleconference instructions and the Rental Office’s telephone number. Ten minutes after the scheduled hearing time the hearing proceeded in the Tenant’s absence. The Landlord confirmed all evidence was included in the evidence package.
ISSUE
A. Does the Tenant owe rent to the Landlord?
ANALYSIS
[14] The evidence establishes that the Tenant owes rent for April, May, June and one day for July 2025, in the amount of $4,396.77.
[15] In Order LD25-227 the Tenant and all occupants are required to vacate the Unit by 5:00 p.m. on July 2, 2025. The Tenant also owes rent for July 1, 2025 in the amount of $46.77 (1-day divided by 31 days multiplied by $1,450.00).
[16] The total rent owing for the period of April 1 to July 1, 2025 is $4,396.77.
[17] The Landlord will keep the Tenant’s security deposit ($1,100.00), including interest ($12.88), in the amount of $1,112.88.
[18] The Tenant must pay the Landlord the rent owing balance, in the amount of $3,283.89 by the timeline below.
IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED THAT
1. The Landlord will keep the Tenant’s security deposit, including interest, in the amount of $1,112.88.
2. The Tenant will pay the Landlord the amount of $3,283.89 by July 31, 2025.
DATED at Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, this 24th day of June, 2025.
(sgd.) Cody Burke Cody Burke Residential Tenancy Officer
NOTICE
Right to Appeal
This Order can be appealed to the Island Regulatory and Appeals Commission (the “Commission”) by serving a Notice of Appeal with the Commission and every party to this Order within 20 days of this Order.
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Filing with the Court
If no appeal has been made within the noted timelines, this Order can be filed with the Supreme Court of Prince Edward Island and enforced as if it were an order of the Court.