{"id":8089,"date":"2022-02-23T20:28:07","date_gmt":"2022-02-24T01:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/360mediations.com\/en\/?p=8089"},"modified":"2022-02-23T20:28:10","modified_gmt":"2022-02-24T01:28:10","slug":"promising-vacant-possession-on-closing-of-tenanted-property","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.360mediations.com\/en\/promising-vacant-possession-on-closing-of-tenanted-property\/","title":{"rendered":"Promising Vacant Possession on Closing of Tenanted Property"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Purchasers who want vacant possession when there is a tenant in the home can give rise to many thorny issues.\u00a0 Tenants can\u2019t be ousted for the asking, and vendor\u2019s need to be weary about making promises to deliver vacant possession.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This case illustrates how one Vendor adequately protected himself quite well because he was able to show the court that he rejected prior offers that made vacant possession, free of the tenant, a term of the sale.\u00a0 Indeed, in the agreement under consideration, the vendor caused the vacant possession term inserted by the purchaser to be changed, so that it finally read, in part, as follows:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">\u201cThe Buyer hereby authorizes and directs the Seller, and the Seller agrees, to give to the tenant(s) the requisite notices requiring vacant possession of the property for use by the Buyer or the Buyer\u2019s immediate family. \u00a0The seller agrees to deliver copies of the requisite notices to the Buyer immediately after service of the notices upon the tenant.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When the closing came, and the tenant was still in the property, the purchaser refused to close, citing violations on the part of the vendor to tender vacant possession.\u00a0 The court ultimately concluded that the purchaser was wrong for not closing the deal: the Vendor did what he was supposed to do by delivering the requisite notices to the tenant, and there was no promise to deliver vacant possession on closing.\u00a0 Indeed, the closing date selected by the purchaser predated the latest day the tenant could remain in the property according the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canlii.org\/en\/on\/laws\/stat\/so-2006-c-17\/latest\/so-2006-c-17.html\"><em>Residential Tenancies Act, 2006, S.O. 2006, c. 17<\/em><\/a><em>.\u00a0 <\/em>As stated by the court, \u201cin other words, the tenants could not be required to leave prior to closing \u2026.(and this doesn\u2019t even)\u2026. take into account the time required for the processes of the Landlord and Tenant Board (the \u201cBoard\u201d) to take their course should the tenants refuse to vacate as required.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The result may have been very different had the vendor actually agreed to provide vacant possession on closing.<\/p>\n<p><em>Lees v. Ahmadi et. al<\/em>., 2022 ONSC 1114<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.canlii.org\/en\/on\/onsc\/doc\/2022\/2022onsc1114\/2022onsc1114.html\">https:\/\/www.canlii.org\/en\/on\/onsc\/doc\/2022\/2022onsc1114\/2022onsc1114.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Purchasers who want vacant possession when there is a tenant in the home can give rise to many thorny issues.\u00a0 Tenants can\u2019t be ousted for the asking, and vendor\u2019s need to be weary about making promises to deliver vacant possession.\u00a0 This case illustrates how one Vendor adequately protected himself quite well because he was able&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.360mediations.com\/en\/promising-vacant-possession-on-closing-of-tenanted-property\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Promising Vacant Possession on Closing of Tenanted Property<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[45],"tags":[182],"class_list":["post-8089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-real-estate","tag-vacant-possession","entry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Promising Vacant Possession on Closing of Tenanted Property - 360Mediations<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Vendors shouldn&#039;t promise vacant possession of tenanted properties, but instead should only promise to deliver vacate notices to tenants.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/360mediations.com\/en\/promising-vacant-possession-on-closing-of-tenanted-property\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Promising Vacant Possession on Closing of Tenanted Property - 360Mediations\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Vendors shouldn&#039;t promise vacant possession of tenanted properties, but instead should only promise to deliver vacate notices to tenants.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/360mediations.com\/en\/promising-vacant-possession-on-closing-of-tenanted-property\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"360Mediations\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/360Mediations-120028596572318\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/360Mediations-120028596572318\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-02-24T01:28:07+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-02-24T01:28:10+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.360mediations.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/COURT-DECISIONS-360MEDIATIONS-1x1-1.png?fit=406%2C322&ssl=1\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"406\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"322\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"David M. 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