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  • Rights & Legal
    ONArticle

    Rent Control and What You Can Advertise

    Rent control in Ontario doesn't limit what rent you can advertise — and that surprise cuts both ways. Vacancy decontrol means a new tenancy's rent is set freely, so the number in your ad is yours to choose; but the moment a tenant signs at that number, the control regime takes over, and the advertised rent becomes the

    13 min read
  • Rent & Payments
    ONArticle

    The N1 Window for 2027 Opens October 3: Serve-Date Math for the 1.9% Year

    Ontario's 2027 rent increase guideline is 1.9% — and the first day a landlord can serve an N1 for a January 1, 2027 increase is October 3, 2026, exactly 90 days out. This is the timing piece: the serve-date math for any 2027 effective date, the 12-month rule check, what the effective date controls (including which year

    15 min read
  • Rights & Legal
    ONArticle

    The N2 Notice in Ontario: Rent Increases for Rent-Control-Exempt Units

    If your rental was first occupied after November 15, 2018, the annual guideline doesn't cap your rent increases — but using the N1 instead of the N2, skipping the 90-day notice, or failing to prove the exemption can void the increase entirely. Here's how the N2 actually works.

    13 min read
  • Maintenance & Repairs
    ONArticle

    Pest Control in an Ontario Rental: Who's Responsible, and What to Document

    Bed bugs, cockroaches, mice — in Ontario, dealing with them is almost always the landlord's job, and paying for it is too. There's an actual regulation that says a rental must be kept "reasonably free of rodents, vermin and insects," a landlord can't pass the exterminator's bill to a tenant without proving the tenant c

    9 min read
  • Rights & Legal
    ONArticle

    The 60-Day Rule: How Ontario Landlords Accidentally Create New Tenancies

    Miss this critical 60-day window and your unauthorized occupant becomes a legal tenant—with full RTA protections and rent control intact. Learn how section 104(4) of the Residential Tenancies Act creates "deemed assignments" and what every Ontario landlord must do to protect their property.

    16 min read