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Section 16 of the Act says that "The rights and obligations of a landlord and tenant under a tenancy agreement take effect from the date the tenancy agreement is entered into, whether or not the tenant ever occupies the rental unit." If you did not actually enter into an agreement to rent 'one of the units that was going to be available on July 1' then the rights and obligations bit spoken of in the Act never did kick in. Recourse? If you are prepared to argue that you, in fact, did enter into an agreement to rent one of the units becoming available, then you'd likely have to go through arbitration, at which time the onus would be on you to prove which unit you agreed on, when, how, etc. In the course of the hearing you'd have to convince a government bureaucrat of the details, and explain why things weren't written down. Very, very tough sell, in my view. In my hearing cases like these, I went for documentation. So would a present day 'dispute resolution officer'. - FYI, the Executive Director of the African Preschool Charity recently wrote: "Hi and a big thanks for continuing to support our charity. This is so amazing what you did and are still doing for the charity. I don't know if I told you this before, but last year we started feeding the kids breakfast and lunch. We have a 155 kids that go to the preschool and it's now be a year that they have been getting fed. The kids looks so much more alert, it's fantastic! Your donations go directly to the food program and I just can't thank you enough."
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