Quebec housing rights (tenants & landlords)

Quebec residential tenancy — the rights and obligations of tenants (lessees) and landlords (lessors) under the Civil Code of Québec, adjudicated by the Tribunal administratif du logement (TAL, formerly the Régie du logement). A query-answering reference distilled from Éducaloi's English renting capsules, quebec.ca, and tal.gouv.qc.ca (fetched 2026-07) via multi-agent research. Covers: the lease (the mandatory TAL form, verbal leases, French-language rule, void clauses, the lowest-rent-in-12-months disclosure notice and the 10-day/2-month deadlines to contest); money (only first month's rent may be required — security/key deposits and demanded post-dated cheques are ILLEGA…