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.
Tenant Running a Home Daycare in Your Rental: An Ontario Landlord’s Rights and Risks
An Ontario landlord’s options when a tenant runs a home daycare: the child-care limits to check first, the conversation to have, and when an N5, N6 or N7 applies.
Your Tenant Charges an EV on Your Hydro Bill: What an Ontario Landlord Can and Can’t Do
An Ontario landlord’s guide to a tenant’s electric car when hydro is included in the rent: what changes between plugging into an existing outlet, installing a Level 2 charger under an ESA notification of work, and signing a section 123 agreement capped at actual cost.
The Life of an Unpaid-Rent Entry: Reporting a Former Tenant’s Debt to a Credit Bureau Under Ontario’s Consumer Reporting Act
An unpaid-rent entry on a credit file has a life cycle, and Ontario’s Consumer Reporting Act governs each stage differently: what binds you when you send it (s.22, PIPEDA consent), who may pull it (s.8), how a tenant disputes it or adds a 200-word statement (s.13, s.12.6), the three seven-year clocks in s.9(3), and the fines and civil liability for false information.
Tenant Behind on Rent? How Toronto’s Rent Bank Money Works, and Where a Landlord Stands
A landlord’s guide to the Toronto Rent Bank: what the arrears and deposit grants pay, the household income and asset limits, what the program does not cover, typical processing time, and how it sits alongside an N4 under RTA s.59.
Skipped Rent Increases for Years? What an Ontario Landlord Can and Cannot Do Now
For Ontario landlords who held the rent flat for years: what the Residential Tenancies Act lets you do with a tenant who says no, a tenant willing to talk, a building with real cost increases, a tenant who is leaving, and a unit first lived in after November 15, 2018, plus the tools that do not exist.
Tenants on ODSP or Ontario Works: How Direct Rent Payment to the Landlord Works, Month by Month
A landlord’s month-by-month guide to ODSP and Ontario Works pay direct in Ontario: who can ask for it, when a caseworker sets it up immediately, why ODSP’s version only ever covers the current month’s rent, what happens when it stops, and how arrears are handled under the Residential Tenancies Act.
Renting Out Your Ontario Home on an Owner-Occupied Policy: Where Coverage Can Break, and What Landlord Insurance Adds
Four ways Ontario owners rent out a home they insured as owner-occupied: the whole house, a basement apartment, a room or boarder, or a short stretch while abroad. For each, how Statutory Condition 4 of the Insurance Act applies to the fire coverage, and the specific questions to put to your insurer or broker in writing.
When a Tenant’s Hoarding Becomes a Fire Risk: What an Ontario Landlord Can Do, and Where the Duty to Accommodate Ends
A neighbour complains, the fire department inspects, family says it is a health condition, or the file goes to the LTB: which Ontario law each of those brings in, from RTA notices N5 and N7 to Fire Protection and Prevention Act orders and the Human Rights Code’s undue hardship test.
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