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PIPEDA-Compliant Rental Application Generator Today's privacy laws require that landlords must obtain consent from prospective tenants when screening them using credit reports or by ways that require disclosing their personal information. TenChek provides you with a means of generating a rental application that complies with the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA): the prospective tenant will be required to provide explicit signed consent to a background check using credit reports. Also, since the TenChek system consists of tenant data submitted by landlords, this application requires the prospective tenant to give explicit signed consent to the landlord to submit details arising from their tenancy to a third party for the purpose of building a tenant rental history database. The application will be generated in Rich Text Format -- compatible with most word processors -- allowing you to edit it if you desire. Your company name or property address can be featured on the application by entering it in the box below.

PIPEDA Compliant Legal Language For legal peace of mind, feel free to copy and paste this language into your existing lease application form. This is the same language that appears in the forms created by the using PIPEDA-Compliant Rental Application Generator
English	I/we know that I/we have the right to verify the information about me/us held by credit reporting agencies, that the landlord and its agents are entitled to rely on such credit reports as being correct, and I/we release any claim I/we may have arising from reliance on that information. I/we hereby give irrevocable permission to the Landlord or its agents to obtain at any time a consumer/credit report about me/us, to contact previous landlords to obtain information about my/our previous tenancies, to contact agencies that provide landlord information, to contact my references, and to take any other reasonable steps necessary to assess this rental application or for any amendment or renewal of my/our tenancy. I/we provide my/our irrevocable consent to the Landlord or their agents to disclose information from my rental application and information arising from any tenancy between us to any third party for the purpose of contributing information to a database of tenant information to be used in providing consumer/credit reports. _____________________________ _____________________________ Applicant Signature Co-Applicant Signature ___________________ ___________________ Date Date
Tips on How to Use This Legal Language Your terms and conditions text should appear as a first paragraph at the bottom of the application form and provisions made for signing separately from the consent language to follow. The consent language as noted above should be placed at the base of the application form as a distinct separate paragraph from your terms and conditions that you may wish to address. In this manner an applicant(s) can apply fully and completely, and not sign the consent form if they so choose. You will, however, not be able to process their application effectively nor legally obtain information from TenChek or anywhere else. Splitting up the consent language as a separate paragraph will leave no possibility for the applicant to argue that they did not see the consent language or that it was not clear.
Provincial Government Web Resources for Landlords The following list of websites provides access to provincially-specific information for landlords and many also provide downloadable forms such as lease agreements. Alberta - Service Alberta : Landlords & Tenants British Columbia - Residential Tenancy Branch : Forms & Fees Manitoba - Residential Tenancies Branch : Forms & Fees New Brunswick - Service New Brunswick : Office of the Rentalsman Forms Newfoundland / Labrador - Service Newfoundland Labrador : Residential Tenancies (Landlords and Tenants) Northwest Territories - Northwest Territories Rental Office : Documents & Forms Nova Scotia - Access Nova Scotia : Renting Residential Property Forms Nunavut - Nunavut Housing Corporation Ontario - Landlord and Tenant Board : Other Help Prince Edward Island - Office of the Director of Residential Rental Property : Forms and Fees Quebec - Regie du logement Quebec : Links Saskatchewan - Office of Residential Tenancies : Information for Landlords and Tenants Yukon - Yukon Housing Corporation