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 Installed a Video Doorbell That Films the Shared Hallway: Where an Ontario Landlord Can Step In
A tenant’s video doorbell in a shared hallway raises three separate questions in Ontario: video of a shared space (PIPEDA’s personal-use limit), audio (Criminal Code s.183 and s.184), and installation (RTA s.34 and s.35). Where the landlord’s RTA s.64 notice fits, how the 7-day correction window works, and what changes in a condo.
E-Bike and E-Scooter Batteries in an Ontario Rental: What a Landlord Can Restrict, and What It Takes to Act on the Fire Risk
A layer-by-layer look at which Ontario rules reach a tenant's e-bike or e-scooter battery: the Fire Code, condo rules, and the lease read against the Residential Tenancies Act.
Your Landlord Is Fixing the Building, and You Live in the Noise: When Ontario Tenants Get a Rent Abatement for Repair Work
Building-wide repairs in an Ontario rental: O. Reg. 516/06 s.8 decides first whether the LTB can order a rent abatement at all, then how much. The ten conditions that shield a landlord, the factors the Board weighs, the 25% and 100% caps, and the one-year filing limit.
Renting Out Your Cottage: When the Residential Tenancies Act Applies and When It Doesn’t
Bought a cottage and plan to rent it out? What you take on as a landlord if the Residential Tenancies Act applies, what the s.5(a) vacation exemption says, why the lease label does not decide it, and how to get a ruling from the Landlord and Tenant Board.
Smart Locks in Ontario Rentals: Who Controls the Code, and Can the Landlord Keep the Access Log?
A smart lock changes the key, not the law. How Ontario’s Residential Tenancies Act entry rules apply to remote unlocking, what the Act leaves open about access logs and changing a tenant’s code, and when a tenant can go to the Landlord and Tenant Board.
Frozen Pipes in a Rental: When the Tenant Pays for the Burst, and When the Landlord Does
A tenant’s guide to the burst-pipe bill: what an Ontario landlord can do under RTA s.62 and s.89, the seven-day window that voids a termination notice, the one-year limit, and how thermostat control and who pays for heat shape the negligence question.
Mould in an Ontario Rental: Landlord Repair Duty or Tenant-Caused Damage?
Mould in an Ontario rental has no rule of its own. Starting from a landlord’s move-out inspection, this guide walks through the RTA s.89 damage claim, the tenant’s T6 route under s.29 and s.30, the Toronto Chapter 629 standards a unit is measured against, and why the last month’s rent deposit can’t cover repairs.
Your Tenant Wants to Paint or Drill: What an Ontario Landlord Can Refuse, and How Damage Gets Paid Without a Damage Deposit
An Ontario landlord’s three instincts about tenant alterations, checked against the standard lease and the Residential Tenancies Act: how far a “no” reaches under §12, why the last month’s rent deposit can’t pay for repairs, and when an N5, N7, L2 or L10 actually fits.
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