GeneralRenting Out a Strata Unit in BC: The Complete Guide
BC stratas can no longer ban long-term rentals, but strata landlords still owe the tenant the bylaws and a Form K, and owe the strata a signed copy within two weeks.
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Safety & Scam PreventionHow to Verify an Applicant Is Real
A name is not an identity. Every rental application arrives with one attached, and almost none of them get checked — which is why fake pay stubs, borrowed credit files, and applicants who are not who the form says they are keep reaching the lease-signing table. This guide is the verification layer: what an Ontario land
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Screening & ApplicationsWhat to Include in an Ontario Rental Application
The rental application is the one screening document you design in advance — and Ontario law effectively writes its table of contents: five authorized information categories, a written consent block for the credit check, and a short list of fields that should never appear (starting with the SIN line most template forms
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Rights & LegalHow to Advertise a Rental Property in Ontario: The Complete Guide
Advertising a rental in Ontario is a five-step craft with a legal layer at every step: confirm the unit can lawfully be listed, price it to the market that exists, write and shoot a listing that works, choose platforms deliberately (only one major site is agent-gated), and run enquiries without drowning. This pillar co
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Rights & LegalBill 60 and Bill 97, Six Months In: What Landed July 1 — and What September 21 Brings
Ontario's biggest tenancy-law overhaul in a generation arrived in two waves — and the first one wasn't the one making headlines. Since July 1, the quiet procedural wave has been in force: review deadlines cut to 15 days, the LTB's Payment Agreement Form now mandatory for every repayment plan, above-guideline document s
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Tools & EvaluationsTenon10 vs AppFolio: Which Fits Canadian Landlords?
Here's the shortest honest comparison on the internet: AppFolio doesn't sell to portfolios under 50 units — so if you're a Canadian landlord with a duplex, a fourplex, or anything under two dozen doors, one of these platforms won't take you as a customer, and the other was built for you. This page covers the rest prope
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Rights & LegalProperty Management and Real Estate Brokerages in Ontario: When Leasing for Others Means RECO Registration
Ontario has no property management licence — and that sentence misleads more PM founders than any other. Lease units for other people as a business and you're "trading in real estate" under TRESA, which means a RECO-registered brokerage: a broker of record, representation agreements, the Information Guide before you se
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Rights & LegalShould You Rent Out Your Toronto Condo or Sell It in 2026?
You think you're choosing between two doors. There are three, and every one is a tax event. The day you rent it out, the Income Tax Act deems you to have sold it — at fair market value, to nobody, for no money. The fix is a one-page letter with no form number, and it's due with that year's return.
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Neighbourhood & LocationBest Hamilton Neighbourhoods to Buy a Rental Property
Hamilton's rental data is telling two stories at once: one report claims double-digit rent growth while listing platforms show asking rents drifting down, and CMHC projects rising vacancy until the supply wave is absorbed. Both camps agree on one thing — the market has split by segment: premium single-family rentals in
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Platform & ProductTenon10 on Your Phone: What Works Today, What's Coming, and the Mobile-First Landlord Workflow
Landlording is a mobile job that most software treats as a desk job — showings, move-in photos, the furnace invoice in your hand, the e-Transfer that arrives while you're in line for coffee. Tenon10's iOS and Android apps are officially coming soon, and this guide is honest about exactly that: what the platform publicl
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Platform & ProductKeya, Explained: Inside Tenon10's AI Copilot for Landlords
Every property platform now claims an AI. The honest questions are: what can it actually see, what can it actually do, and what happens when it's wrong? This deep-dive walks through Keya, Tenon10's AI copilot, the way a landlord meets it — plain-English answers drawn from your own ledger ("What's my collection rate thi
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Rights & LegalTenant Communication Templates: What Ontario Landlords Must Put in Writing, and How to Say It
Every message to a tenant carries a legal weight — and most landlords can't tell the three tiers apart. Some things must be LTB forms, and no friendly letter can substitute. Some must be written with exact contents the RTA prescribes: the 24-hour entry notice's reason, date, and time; the email-service consent that mak
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Rights & LegalThe L5 Application: How to File for an Above-Guideline Rent Increase in Ontario
You've confirmed your AGI grounds — now comes the paperwork. The L5 is the LTB's most unusual filing: it skips the portal entirely, runs on an Excel form with strict naming rules, demands every receipt up front, and bills $233-plus before anyone reads a word. Here's the complete filing walkthrough — schedules, RUI, fee
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Rights & LegalOntario Standard Lease vs Custom Leases: Why It's Not Actually a Choice
Searching "Standard Lease vs custom lease Ontario" implies a decision that mostly doesn't exist: since April 2018, Form 2229E is mandatory for nearly every new residential tenancy. What's really worth knowing is the territory around that rule — where lawful customization lives (Section 15), which rentals are genuinely
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Taxes & DeductionsThe T776 Expense Deep-Dive: Every Rental Deduction Ontario Landlords Can Actually Claim
The expense section is where a T776 is won or lost — it's the largest part of the form and where landlords both overpay (by missing deductions) and get audited (by claiming the wrong ones). This deep-dive walks every T776 expense line, the one distinction that governs all of them — current vs. capital — and the traps t
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News & Policy UpdatesOntario's New Rent Repayment Agreement Rules (July 2026): The Mandatory LTB Form Explained
As of July 1, 2026, a rent-arrears repayment agreement filed with the Landlord and Tenant Board must use the Board's official form — no more handwritten deals on the back of an envelope. Here's how the new s.206 rule works: what the mandatory form covers, the section 78 clause that lets a landlord skip a new eviction n
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Rights & LegalThe L10 Application: How Ontario Landlords Collect Money a Former Tenant Owes
When a tenant moves out still owing you money, the L10 lets you take them to the LTB to collect — rent arrears, NSF charges, and utility costs. Here's who can use it, the one-year deadline that catches landlords out, what you can claim, and how to file and actually get paid.
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Rights & LegalN9 in Ontario: How Tenants Give Proper Notice to End a Tenancy
The N9 is the form Ontario tenants use to end their own tenancy — and getting the notice period and termination date right is what makes it valid. Here's how much notice you need to give, how to calculate the correct end date, and the mistakes that leave you on the hook for another month's rent.
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Taxes & DeductionsThe T776 Form: How to Report Rental Income on Your Canadian Tax Return
A plain-language guide to Form T776, Statement of Real Estate Rentals — what counts as rental income, which expenses you can deduct, how capital cost allowance (CCA) works and when to skip it, and how to file it with your personal tax return.
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