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 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。
Does Your Landlord Have to Give You a Copy of the Lease and Rent Receipts? Yes — and the “Withhold Rent” Rule Has a Trap
“No signed lease? Then I'll just stop paying rent.” It's the move that quietly backfires on Ontario tenants. A missing copy — or a landlord that won't put its legal name and address on paper — really does pause your rent under RTA s.12. But the day the landlord fixes the paperwork, it can claw back every dollar you held: withheld rent is parked, never erased. The same statute hands you a right most renters forget — a free receipt, on request, good for a full year after you move out. Broker Arthur Zhao on using the freeze without landing in arrears.
房东必须给你租约副本和租金收据吗？「暂停交租」这条，多数人用错了
房东没给签字的租约副本、没写清法定名址、拒开租金收据，安省法律怎么说？本文按 RTA 第 12 条、第 109 条讲清：房东合规前交租义务「暂停」（第 12(4) 条），但补齐手续后可全额追讨（第 12(5) 条）——是递延不是豁免；以及收据必须免费提供、前租客 12 个月内仍可索取。地产经纪 Arthur Zhao 拆解你手里这个易被用错的筹码。
Ontario’s Winter Disconnection Ban — and the Landlord Who Doesn’t Pay the Bill
If a landlord fails to pay the hydro or gas bill and the utility cuts the service, Ontario’s Residential Tenancies Act (s.21(2)) treats the landlord as having withheld a vital service — no proof of bad intent required. Layered on top: the OEB winter ban that stops disconnection for non-payment from Nov 15 to Apr 30, and a separate RTA window (Sept 1 to June 15) for heat. Broker Arthur Zhao maps who is on the hook and which rule applies when.
冬天不能断电断气：安省两个「保护期」不一样长，房东欠费更被法律视同亲手断供
冬天在安省，电和天然气公司不得因欠费给住宅客户断供——但这条 OEB 禁令的日期（11 月 15 日至 4 月 30 日），和《住宅租赁法》里「暖气算命脉服务」的日期（9 月 1 日至 6 月 15 日）根本不重合。更关键的是：房东该付账单却不付、供应商因此停供，RTA s.21(2) 直接把它视同房东自己扣留命脉服务，无需证明恶意。地产经纪 Arthur Zhao 拆清两个窗口的差异与房东租客的责任归属。
Can an Ontario Landlord Put Cameras on a Rental Property? The Law That Actually Decides It Isn’t Privacy Law
Wondering whether your Ontario landlord can install security cameras — or whether you can make them stop? The operative question isn’t whether it breaks privacy law. It’s what happens when a tenant objects, and that runs through the Landlord and Tenant Board under s.22 and s.23 of the Residential Tenancies Act, not a privacy commissioner. Broker Arthur Zhao maps which of three laws actually bites, and why the Criminal Code almost never does.
房东能在出租屋装监控吗？在安省，真正管这件事的不是「隐私法」，是 RTA 第 22 条
房东在出租屋、走廊、门口装监控，租客觉得被盯着，第一反应往往是「告他违反隐私法」。但在安省，管住私人房东的其实不是任何一部隐私法——是《Residential Tenancies Act, 2006》第 22 条（合理享用）和第 23 条（骚扰），由 LTB 裁，能判租金减免。地产经纪 Arthur Zhao 拆清三部法各管哪一段，以及刑法 s.162 为什么绝大多数摄像头都够不着。
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