A residential eviction in Alberta runs on the Residential Tenancies Act. The ground you rely on decides which notice you serve, how long the tenant has to put it right, and whether the Residential Tenancy Dispute Resolution Service will grant an order if they stay. Get the ground or the dates wrong and the notice can be voided at the hearing, which puts you back at the start with another month of unpaid rent behind you.
Edmonton Eviction Services Inc. handles residential files end to end, from the first notice through to enforcement. The company was founded by Don Gray, who managed a portfolio of 500 rental units before starting it, and the team works from Fort Saskatchewan on roughly 45 landlord and tenant files a month across the province.
You cannot evict for a reason the Act does not recognise, and the ground sets the notice period. These are the grounds behind almost every file we take on.
Most landlords call at one of two points: before serving anything, or after serving something that did not work. Either is fine. The earlier call is cheaper.
We identify the ground, draft the notice so the figures and dates hold, and set the correct notice period.
The notice is delivered and the delivery is documented. Where a tenant is avoiding delivery, that is handled by our process serving team rather than by you at the door.
The tenant pays, fixes the breach, or leaves. A large share of files end here.
If they stay, we build and file the hearing package. The Dispute Resolution Service has its own service requirements and its own deadlines.
We present the file. You do not need a lawyer for an RTDRS hearing — the service was set up so landlords and tenants could present their own cases.
The order of possession is served, and if the tenant still does not leave, a civil enforcement bailiff carries it out. We coordinate that.
Where you would rather settle than get an order, landlord tenant mediation is usually faster and keeps a tenant who is willing to pay in the unit. Business tenants are a different matter — commercial leases run under the Commercial Tenancies Act, covered on our commercial eviction page.
Here are some of the top reasons why you should consider acquiring professional eviction services:
The eviction process demands your time, attention, energy, and concentration. As a landlord, you have other responsibilities that you cannot set aside while you are busy with the eviction process. For example, if your tenant is in your Sherwood Park property, but you have other properties and businesses to manage at another location, you will be spread very thin. Hiring professionals to do the eviction work for you will make the entire ordeal bearable and easy for you and your family.
Dealing with problematic tenants is already stressful enough but it would escalate further once you try serving the eviction notice yourself. Going through the legalities and trying to talk with troublesome tenants will cause you to lose sleep and be in a constant state of anxiety. Wouldn’t transfer this burden to people who have experienced a better option?
The people who provide professional eviction services are knowledgeable of different laws and rules on eviction, especially in your area. Through the years they have developed a certain expertise that you can never replicate overnight or even after weeks of reading and researching. There is a greater chance of successful eviction if you leave the dirty work to the experts.
Handling interactions with tenants requires caution, especially in sensitive situations. Our skilled team ensures safety and professionalism in all engagements, allowing you to entrust these tasks to experienced experts. We approach concerns with empathy and respect, maintaining privacy and dignity. Trust us to manage tenant interactions efficiently, while you focus on other aspects of property management with confidence.
Problematic tenants behave in different ways depending on where they are coming from emotionally and financially. Hiring a professional service removes you from these problems emotionally. Eviction services are able to handle the task due to their experience in dealing with all scenarios before.
These four come up on nearly every first call.
Often, yes. A 14-day notice for unpaid rent settles a large share of files on its own, because the tenant either pays or leaves inside the notice period. The hearing is what happens when they do neither.
Refusing to take a document is not a defence, but proving delivery is your problem rather than theirs. This is the most common reason a file stalls, and it is why service is documented rather than just done.
No. The Residential Tenancy Dispute Resolution Service was designed for landlords and tenants to present their own cases. We prepare the file and present it, which is what most landlords actually want from counsel.
A civil enforcement bailiff, acting on the order of possession. You do not do this yourself and neither do we — changing locks or removing belongings without an order is how a landlord ends up on the wrong side of their own file.
