Category: For Renters

House Approves Strata Regulations »

Wednesday, March 17, 2010 The Registration (Strata Titles) (Amendment) Regulations, which provides the administrative tools for Strata Corporations to administer their duties effectively, was approved in the House of Representatives on Tuesday (March 16). Prime Minister Bruce Golding mentioned that Regulation 11(d) provided for information to be made available to the key players in the [...]

House Passes (Strata Titles) Amendment Act »

KINGSTON (JIS): Wednesday, December 16, 2009 Prime Minister the Hon. Bruce Golding The House of Representatives yesterday (December 15) passed the Registration (Strata Titles) Amendment Act with the 29 changes made by the Senate. Prime Minister, the Hon. Bruce Golding, noted that the majority of the amendments involved the insertion of or changes to words, [...]

2009 NAR Public Awareness Campaign »

Realtors Association of Jamaica (RAJ) to Introduce Multiple Listing Service to Jamaica »

The Multiple Listing System (MLS) may be familiar to those of you from the USA and Canada, but may be a bit of a mystery to those from elsewhere. The basic idea of the MLS is that all the (RAJ) Member firms have agreed to share their property listings and work together on all MLS [...]

Strata bill seen as ‘draconian’ »

Published: Sunday | August 23, 2009 Apartment owners and other shared-space dwellers will be saddled with bigger monthly bills if the draft legislation as it is now crafted were to be passed by lawmakers, the Trafalgar Council is charging. The council, which represents the interests of residents in Seymour Lands, New Kingston, Trafalgar Park and [...]

The Landlord Has Keys To My Home – When Can He Enter? »

LEGAL NOTES With Andrea Scarlett-Lozer Wednesday, June 24, 2009 The most fundamental tenet of the relationship between a landlord and a tenant is that the tenant has the exclusive right to occupy and possess the premises that he has rented from his landlord. The tenant has the legal right to exclude all persons, including the [...]