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.
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。
Your Upstairs Neighbour Won’t Stop the Noise and Your Landlord Just Shrugs: What Ontario’s Right to Reasonable Enjoyment Actually Requires
Noise from upstairs, second-hand smoke, cooking fumes — and a landlord who shrugs. In Ontario you cannot file against the neighbour at the LTB: under RTA s.29(1) paragraph 3, the only respondent is the landlord, superintendent or agent. This guide explains reasonable enjoyment (s.22), the landlord’s duty to take reasonable action, the T2 route, the one-year limit (s.29(2)), s.31 remedies, and the landlord’s own N5 (s.64). Broker Arthur Zhao breaks it down.
邻居噪音、二手烟、油烟，房东装死怎么办？安省「合理享有」权利：你要告的是房东，不是邻居
楼上噪音、隔壁二手烟、油烟灌进屋，房东却装死不管，安省法律怎么救你？本文按 RTA 第 22 条与第 29(1) 条第 3 项讲清一个多数人搞反的机制：你能向 LTB 申请的对手方只有房东／管理员／代理人，告不了隔壁那位租客；理据是房东未采取合理措施。含 T2 申请路径、一年时效（第 29(2) 条）、第 31 条救济与房东手里的 N5（第 64 条）。持牌经纪 Arthur Zhao 拆解。
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