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.
HELOC or Refinance Interest on a Rental in Canada: Does CRA Care Which House Secures the Loan?
Borrowing against your home to buy a rental, or refinancing a rental to pay for your own house? CRA’s interest deductibility Folio says the test is the direct, current use of the borrowed money, not the property pledged. How that plays out on T776 Line 8710, including CRA’s worked example of a line of credit used for both.
A 16- or 17-Year-Old Wants to Rent Your Unit: What Ontario’s Human Rights Code Says
Ontario’s Human Rights Code defines “age” as 18 or more, so a 16- or 17-year-old renter is covered only by section 4. A landlord’s walk through the application, the lease and the guarantee, with the exact wording of the Code and O. Reg. 290/98.
Garage Excluded, One Door Locked: Renting a Whole House When the Ontario Landlord Keeps Space Back
Renting out a whole house in Ontario but keeping the garage, a locked room or a storage corner? How each type of retained space affects what the lease should say, when RTA s.27 notice is needed to reach it, and what a tenant can take to the LTB.
My Tenant Moved Out After a Breakup, but Their Partner Stayed. Is That Person Now My Tenant?
An Ontario landlord's guide to the tenant who leaves after a breakup while a partner who never signed the lease stays: signing a new lease under RTA s.104(1) and (3), applying to the LTB under s.100 within 60 days of discovering the occupancy, what happens under s.104(4) if you do neither, why compensation for use and occupation is not rent, and how a married spouse's Family Law Act rights differ from an unmarried partner's.
Your Tenant Moved Out and Left a Pet Behind: What an Ontario Landlord Can and Cannot Do
A tenant appears to have abandoned the unit and left a cat inside. What the PAWS Act requires of any person and of an owner or custodian, what animal welfare inspectors can do, and where RTA sections 41 and 42 fit.
Unregistered Short-Term Rental in Ontario? What Canada’s Non-Compliant STR Rule Means for Your Rental Expense Deductions
A worked, hypothetical year-end calculation of Canada's non-compliant short-term rental rule (Income Tax Act s.67.7): how A × B ÷ C cuts deductions by days, what counts as non-compliant, how Toronto's Chapter 547 registration and 28-day definition fit in, and why your registration date is the record to keep.
Renting Out a Rural Home on a Private Well and Septic: Who Tests the Water, Pumps the Tank and Pays When It Fails
A system-by-system guide for Ontario landlords and tenants of rural rentals: what the law requires on the water side, what it requires on the septic side, what a lease can add, and where the tenant’s responsibility starts.
Renting Out a House in Brampton, Hamilton or Oshawa: Does the City Want a Rental Licence First?
A rental licence is a city rule, not a provincial one. How Brampton, Hamilton and Oshawa compare on which homes need a licence, what you file, which inspections you face, fees, insurance and fines, and where to check your own address before the next tenant moves in.
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