C Compensation Owed for Renovation Work
Defendants offered testimony at trial that they have not been fully compensated for the renovation work they performed to the Lincoln property. This Court assumes that Defendants made this argument in part to have the rental arrearage offset by the money alleged to be owed to them for renovation work. Although this Court makes no determination as to whether money is in fact owed under the oral agreement for renovation work, it is worth noting that the residential tenancy agreement and the oral agreement for renovation work are two separate contracts. As such, this Court cannot consider money owed to Defendants pursuant to one contract, as an offset to money Defendants may owe on another. There has been no counterclaim brought by which the Defendants assert a claim related to the construction arrearage. And as stated earlier, if the parties intended the services rendered by Tenants to constitute part of the stipulated rent, the written lease agreement does not contain any such provision.