How to Fill Out Manitoba RTB Termination Forms: Form 8, Form 10, and Form 11A

Where to Get the Forms

All prescribed termination forms are available through the Manitoba government's Forms Portal (residents.gov.mb.ca). Use the official versions — third-party templates from form-filling websites may not match the current prescribed layout, and a materially different form can be challenged at a hearing.

Every Form Requires These Fields

Regardless of which form you are completing, five things must be right:

1. Party names. List every landlord and every adult tenant named on the tenancy agreement. Missing a co-tenant can invalidate the notice.
2. Property address. Include the street address, unit or apartment number, and municipality.
3. Reason for termination. Select the correct statutory ground. For Form 10, write specific details — the dates, the rule breached, and any prior warning letters.
4. Termination date. This must comply with the statutory notice period and align with the last day of a rental payment period for periodic tenancies.
5. Pre-printed rights text. Do not alter or remove the statutory text informing the tenant of their right to dispute the notice with the RTB.

Form 8: Non-Payment of Rent

Use Form 8 when rent is unpaid three days after the due date.

• State the amount of rent owing and the period it covers
• Set the move-out date — the Act does not prescribe a minimum gap between service and the move-out date, but the RTB recommends giving reasonable time
• If the tenancy includes tenant services, use Form 8.1 instead; for mobile home or site tenancies, use Form 9

Form 10: Termination for Cause

Use Form 10 for breach of rules, property damage, noise, safety risks, or habitual late payment.

• For minor breaches, you must have already given a formal written warning and a cure period before serving Form 10
• The notice period is one full rental payment period (typically one month)
• For severe safety risks — violent behaviour, direct physical threats, arson risk — the notice period can be as short as five calendar days, and no prior warning is required
• Describe the breach in plain language with dates and specifics

Form 11A: Personal Use or Sale

Use Form 11A when you, a qualifying family member, or a purchaser intends to occupy the unit.

• Qualifying occupants: the landlord, the landlord's spouse, a parent of the landlord or the landlord's spouse, or an adult child of the landlord or the landlord's spouse. Siblings, nieces, and distant relatives do not qualify.
• For a purchaser, the sale agreement must be unconditional and the purchaser must submit a written request confirming their occupancy intention
• For landlord own-use notices, the notice period is three months at a vacancy rate of 3% or higher, four months from 2% to 2.9%, and five months below 2%. For a purchaser's sale notice, it is one month at 3% or higher and three months below 3%; for a fixed-term tenancy, it is three months.
• A Form 11A notice for a fixed-term tenancy cannot take effect before the agreement's end date
• The tenant is entitled to claim up to $500 in moving expenses

After Completing the Form

Serve the notice using a permitted method — personal delivery to the tenant or to an apparently adult person at the unit. You cannot mail a termination notice. Then complete a sworn Declaration of Service immediately while the details are fresh.

Our Ending a Tenancy in Manitoba guide includes a Ground-Selection Matrix that tells you which form to use for each situation, plus a Notice Date Worksheet that calculates the correct termination date.

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