Rental: Landlord
租赁·房东：租客筛选、RTA / N4 / N12、押金、驱逐、自主管理。 Tenant screening, RTA / N4 / N12, deposits, evictions, self-managing rentals.
Your Tenant Just Filed for Bankruptcy: Does Ontario’s Arrears Process Still Work, or Does Federal Law Freeze It?
Your tenant filed for bankruptcy in Ontario. Does the federal stay freeze your arrears process? The dividing line between pre-bankruptcy arrears and rent that comes due after — and where a landlord actually ranks when the estate is paid out.
房客突然申报破产，房东还能要回欠租吗？——破产自动中止与安省 LTB 程序的交界
房客突然申报破产，房东还能靠 LTB 要回欠租吗？本文拆开联邦破产法的自动中止与安省 LTB 程序的交界：破产前欠租属可申报债权、破产后新租金另算，以及房东在破产分配里排第 (f) 位、拿得到什么。附 BIA 与 RTA 一手条文出处。
How Warm Does an Ontario Rental Have to Be? “20 Degrees” Is Three Rules Stacked, Not One
Your Ontario unit feels cold, your landlord says it’s fine — who’s right, and who has to prove it? It rarely comes down to the thermostat. Heat is only a required vital service from September 1 to June 15 (O. Reg. 516/06 s.4(1)); the bar inside that window is 20°C, read 1.5 m off the floor (s.4(2)); and if you control your own thermostat and the main system can reach 20°C, s.4(3) takes that guarantee off your unit. The duty that always applies lives in RTA s.20(1) and in municipal by-laws — Toronto demands 21°C. Broker Arthur Zhao covers who proves what, what the law says about summer heat, and the two ways to force a fix.
安省出租房室温到底该多少度：20 度不是一条无条件铁律，而是三层叠出来的
安省出租房室温有没有法定下限？很多人只记住「20 度」，却没看清它其实是三层叠起来的：热力只有 9 月 1 日到 6 月 15 日才算必需服务（O. Reg. 516/06 s.4(1)），达标温度是可住空间至少 20°C（s.4(2)，离地 1.5 米量），而如果你自己能调温控、主热源又够得到 20 度，s.4(3) 直接把这条标准从你的房子上摘掉。真正无条件的「适合居住」义务在 RTA s.20(1) 和市政细则里——多伦多要求 21°C，比省级还高一度。持牌经纪 Arthur Zhao 拆解供暖季、降温、执法与罚款。
Is a Retirement Home a Tenancy? Ontario’s RTA Never Uses That Word — It Uses “Care Home”
Worried a parent in an Ontario retirement home is stuck with house rules instead of tenant rights? The Residential Tenancies Act (RTA) never uses the words “retirement home,” and its one exclusion list, s.5, names only long-term care homes — not retirement residences. So your parent stays a full tenant under the Act’s working label, “care home,” with the extra Part IX protections that follow. The one catch is s.148, a power to move a resident out for rising care needs — but it is hedged by a two-part test and mandatory mediation, not a free hand. On top sits a second regulator, the RHRA under the Retirement Homes Act, 2010, which by s.52 cannot override the RTA. Broker Arthur Zhao maps how the two layers fit.
住进「退休公寓」，安省租房法到底管不管你——RTA 根本没有 retirement home 这个词，它管的是 care home
住进安省的退休公寓（retirement home），还算不算受《住宅租赁法》(RTA) 保护的租客？很多家属把问题问反了——RTA 通篇没有「退休公寓」这个词，它用的是更宽的 care home（护理居所）；正确的问法是「你这家退休公寓算不算 care home」，而多数退休公寓的答案是算。落进 care home 后，你反而多拿到 Part IX 一整套保护（书面协议、5 天反悔、外请护理、随时 30 天退租、去世后 10 天封顶），同时被《退休公寓法》与 RHRA 持牌监管叠加管。持牌经纪 Arthur Zhao 拆解 RTA 与 RHA 的双层关系。
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。
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