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What Is TOPA?

A tenant opportunity to purchase act (TOPA) is a policy that gives tenants some specific rights when their building goes up for sale. Learn what it covers and what it doesn’t in this video.

When a rental building goes up for sale, tenants often have no say in what happens. That is, unless where they live has a tenant opportunity to purchase act, or TOPA.

TOPA is a policy that gives tenants some specific rights when their building goes up for sale. Here we describe what they typically include.

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