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My Landlord Took Away My Parking — LTB or Small Claims? The Jurisdiction Split (and the One-Year Clock)
Landlord pulled your parking, or started billing for it on the side? Whether you fight it at the Landlord and Tenant Board or in Small Claims Court turns on one thing: was the parking part of a residential tenancy. If it was, parking is a service or facility under RTA s.2(1) — file a T3 rent reduction (s.130) or a T2 for substantial interference (s.29), claim a value-based amount (O. Reg. 516/06 s.39, never a flat percentage), and move inside the one-year limit (s.130(5)). Standalone parking is not a rental unit, so the LTB steps aside and Small Claims takes over. Ontario broker Arthur Zhao maps the dividing line.
房东把我的车位收走了，能去 LTB 告他吗？——车位纠纷的管辖分岔与一年时效
房东擅自把租客的车位收走或单独加收停车费，能不能去 LTB 告？关键先分岔：车位是不是这套住宅租约的一部分。是——它是 RTA 第 2(1) 条列举的 services and facilities，走 T3 减租（s.130）和/或 T2 干扰安宁（s.29），但有一年硬时效（s.130(5)）；减多少按车位价值算（O. Reg. 516/06 s.39），不是固定百分比。若是与住宅无关的纯单独车位，不是 rental unit，LTB 管不了，去小额钱债法庭。持牌经纪 Arthur Zhao 拆解。
You Fired Your Building Superintendent. No, You Can’t Just Change the Locks — How Ontario’s RTA Really Handles a Super’s Unit
Fire your building superintendent and you still cannot change the locks on the suite that came with the job. Under Ontario’s Residential Tenancies Act a superintendent’s premises is a rental unit (s.2(1)), and a tenancy agreement expressly includes a licence to occupy — so “it’s only staff housing” doesn’t take it outside the Act. Part V then moves fast: s.93 ends the tenancy the day employment ends, gives one week to vacate, and lets the landlord charge nothing for that week — but s.94 still requires a Form L2 at the Landlord and Tenant Board to evict. No lockouts. The one kind of employee housing genuinely exempt is farm-worker accommodation under s.5(b). Arthur Zhao, licensed broker, on how the rules actually run.
驻楼管理员住的免租房，算不算租客？——离职就得走，但 RTA 照样管，走的是一套「加速终止」的特别规则
驻楼管理员（superintendent）住的免租单位，到底算不算 RTA 下的租客？很多人以为「员工房＝公司说走就走的宿舍」——错。安省《住宅租赁法》s.2(1) 把它明文定义成 rental unit，Part V 的 s.93 让租约随雇佣同日终止、租客一周内搬离、且这一周房东不得收租；但依 s.94，房东仍须向 LTB 递 L2（第 3 项理由）才能强制迁离，不能换锁自助赶人。真正被 s.5(b) 排除在 RTA 之外的，是农场雇工的住房。持牌经纪 Arthur Zhao 拆解。
Your Tenant Pulled the Battery Out of the Smoke Alarm — Are You, the Landlord, on the Hook? Ontario’s Ongoing Fire Code Duty
Who answers when a tenant disables the smoke alarm and a fire follows — the tenant, the landlord, or both? Under Ontario’s Fire Code (O. Reg. 213/07), disabling an alarm is an offence for anyone (6.3.3.6), but the maintenance and testing duty is fixed on the landlord alone (2.13.1.2, 6.3.3.2) and can’t be handed to the tenant in the lease. What you owe during the tenancy — annual and change-of-tenant testing (6.3.3.8), the manufacturer-instruction handover (6.3.3.4) — and whether a pulled battery is an N5 or an N7 under the RTA. Broker Arthur Zhao explains.
火警警报的电池被租客拔了，出事房东担责吗？——安省《消防法典》下，房东对烟雾／一氧化碳警报的「持续」义务
租客把烟雾警报电池拔了，真出了事，房东还担责吗？安省《消防法典》(O. Reg. 213/07) 把警报的持续维护义务钉在房东身上——2.13.1.2／6.3.3.2 明文只有房东是 owner、租客被排除在外；但 6.3.3.6「任何人不得使警报失效」同样约束租客。本文讲清房东每年＋换租客的测试义务(6.3.3.8)、交付维护说明书(6.3.3.4)，以及「拔电池 vs 弄坏警报」在 RTA 下走 N5 还是 N7。持牌经纪 Arthur Zhao 拆解。
You Got the Eviction Order for Rent Arrears — Paying It Off Doesn’t Always Save You in Ontario
Facing an Ontario eviction order for unpaid rent? Section 74 of the Residential Tenancies Act gives three separate chances to pay and stay: before the order issues (discontinued), before it becomes enforceable (void, with no limit), and before the sheriff enforces it (set aside). Only the last is capped at once per tenancy. Broker Arthur Zhao maps what you owe at each stage.
拿到欠租驱逐令，把欠款补齐就没事了吗？安省 RTA 第 74 条的三个付款窗口
欠租被下了驱逐令，把钱补上就能留下来吗？安省《住宅租赁法》第 74 条给了三个先后不同的付款窗口：下命令前付清申请「中止」、命令可执行前付清命令「作废」（不限次）、可执行后付清再申请「撤销」——只有最后这一步一个租约期内只能用一次。地产经纪 Arthur Zhao 按 e-Laws 现行条文逐条拆解。
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