Renting a Room 

When you share living space with your landlord, for example, if you rent a bedroom in your landlord's home, then the Residential Tenancies Act does not apply to you or your landlord. This means that any agreement you came to with the landlord would be the terms under which you would live in the house. Another way of looking at this, is that neither the landlord nor the tenant are protected by what is set out in the Act.

It is therefore important that you think about the issues that need to be agreed to and included in the lease agreement. The information on this site can assist you with knowing what terms you should include in the agreement that you have with your landlord. 

You might want to review the following sections to see what kinds of terms you could include in your agreement.

Items that should be included in the lease agreement:

• Security deposit
• Inspection of the property
• Rent
• The Type of tenancy – periodic or fixed term
• Landlord and tenant obligations under the Residential Tenancies Act 

April 2011