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  • Rights & Legal
    ONArticle

    Ontario's New Persistent Late Payment Test: The 3-in-6 Rule and the Other 7-Day Clock

    On September 21, 2026, "persistent late payment" stops being a judgment call and becomes a statutory test: under O. Reg. 516/06, rent counts as late only if it's unpaid more than seven days after the due date, and a tenant is persistently late after at least three late payments within any six-month period — a floor, no

    12 min read
  • Screening & Applications
    ONArticle

    What 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

    15 min read
  • Tools & Evaluations
    ONArticle

    Rental Listing Description Templates for Ontario Landlords

    Five ready-to-use rental listing templates — basement suite, condo one-bedroom, family house, student unit, and executive rental — each built on the six-part method: a factual headline, a lede that proves you've met the unit, the complete facts block, specifics instead of adjectives, a response promise, and Ontario's l

    13 min read
  • Market Trends
    ONArticle

    Vacancy Rates by Ontario City: Where Units Sit Empty and Where They Don't

    Ontario's rental market just loosened for the first time in years — Toronto's purpose-built vacancy rate hit 3.0% in the latest CMHC survey, a level it hadn't seen since before the pandemic. But a vacancy rate is the most misread number in a landlord's toolkit. A rising rate doesn't mean "avoid this city," and a very l

    13 min read
  • Rights & Legal
    ONArticle

    Rent Collection at Scale: The System Ontario Property Managers Actually Need

    One unit, rent is a payment. Twenty units, rent is a system — rails, reminders, reconciliation, arrears escalation, and owner draws, all running against rules the platforms don't mention: in Ontario you can't require post-dated cheques or automatic payments, you can't charge late fees, and receipts are a legal duty. Th

    18 min read
  • Rights & Legal
    ONArticle

    N9 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.

    11 min read