Richmond Rental Connect (RRC) will be holding a workshop for tenants and secondary suit landlords in an attempt to help them work together.
The workshop, Building Successful Tenant-Landlord Relations, is the result of earlier conversation circles at which landlords, homeowners and tenants explored problems as well as solutions in regard to renting a secondary suite.
The workshop will explain rental agreements and the rights and legal responsibilities of landlords and tenants. There will be practical advice for good communication as well as information on the housing registry. Everyone wishing to participate in the RRC housing registry will need to take the workshop.
Richmond community service agencies with housing representatives and client supports are also invited to take the workshop. It will be an opportunity for all stake-holders to learn together and understand different viewpoints in a neutral setting.
Once people have completed the workshop, they will be given access to the RRC on-line registry where tenants can post their needs and landlords their suites.
Because the people accessing the registry will have already met at the workshop, it is hoped they will start into an equal relationship based in common knowledge and trust.
In addition, the website gives them rental information and resources they can download. Depending on funding, supplemental workshops are being planned in 2013 on such topics as understanding secondary suite bylaws and dispute resolution.
Building Successful Tenant-Landlord Relations will be held Tuesday, Sept. 18 at South Arm United Church from 6: 30 to 9 p.m. Anyone interested in attending can email info@richmondrentalconnect.ca or leave a message at 604 205 4700.
Richmond Rental Connect is a pilot project of the Richmond Poverty Response Committee formed to help alleviate Richmond's affordable housing crisis.
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