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Maintenance & RepairsHow to replace windows while a tenant lives in a BC rental: written entry notice, scheduling the work, quiet enjoyment and when tenants are compensated.
Rights & LegalCalgary tenancies follow Alberta's Residential Tenancies Act, plus city rules for secondary suites and short-term rentals. The suite amnesty is set to end December 31, 2026.
Maintenance & RepairsA boil water advisory in Alberta raises fast questions for landlords and tenants: who issues it, who is responsible for safe water, what to tell tenants, how to flush the building when it lifts, and whether rent can be reduced.
Maintenance & RepairsWho fixes a drafty, cracked or broken window in a BC rental, what section 32 of the Residential Tenancy Act requires, and how tenants get a repair through the RTB.
Maintenance & RepairsAlberta rentals must meet the Minimum Housing and Health Standards: 22 °C heat, hot water at 46 to 60 °C, working smoke alarms and no pests. Here is who repairs what and what to do when repairs are ignored.
Neighbourhood & LocationWhat a Vancouver landlord needs beyond the Residential Tenancy Act: the City's long-term rental business licence, the Empty Homes Tax and provincial speculation tax declarations, the 2026 cooling rule, and what CMHC's 2025 survey says about rents.
Maintenance & RepairsCondensation and mould on rental windows: what tenants must clean, what landlords must repair, and how BC's Residential Tenancy Branch sorts out the cause.
News & Policy UpdatesVICTORIA, Oct. 25, 2026: Preliminary results show the BC Conservatives leading in 64 of 93 districts. Nothing in BC rental law changes yet; final count is planned for Nov. 6 to 10.
GeneralWhen new windows can support an additional rent increase in BC: the Residential Tenancy Regulation tests, what is excluded, the 3% cap and what tenants can do.
GeneralHow Alberta's 14-day notice for unpaid rent works under RTA section 29: what it must contain, how to count and serve it, what the tenant can do, and what happens if nobody pays or leaves.
Finances & BudgetingBC brokerages must complete two trust reconciliations within 5 weeks of every month-end. Here is how they work, with a worked example and the checks that catch problems early.
GeneralAlberta caps all deposits at one month's rent, requires a trust account within 2 banking days, and gives landlords 10 days to return the deposit. No inspection report means no damage deductions.
News & Policy UpdatesTORONTO, Oct. 24, 2026: Toronto votes Monday, October 26, from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Here are the city's current rental rules and, side by side, what Brad Bradford and Olivia Chow promise on rental housing.
Maintenance & RepairsUnder section 33 of BC's Residential Tenancy Act, a tenant can arrange an emergency repair and be reimbursed, or deduct it from rent. Here are the conditions, the paperwork and when a landlord can refuse.
Rights & LegalA BC landlord may enter a rental unit only in six situations, most often with 24 hours' written notice. Here is what the notice must say, how to time it, and what each side can do when rules are broken.
GeneralWhat a BC rental property management trust ledger must show under the Real Estate Services Rules, a reconciled month with two owners, a monthly routine for a portfolio, and what Tenon10's PM plan covers.
GeneralAlberta has no cap on rent increases, but the notice, the 365-day rule and the fixed-term limits are strict. A notice that misses them is void.
Finances & BudgetingThe BC trust account rules for rental property managers: deposits in, fees out, interest, negative balances, monthly reconciliations and the annual accountant's report.
Rights & LegalOntario's 2027 guideline is 1.9%; BC's limit is 2.2%. Rent increases, deposits, entry and unpaid-rent notices compared side by side for owners with rentals in both provinces.
Lease & AgreementsWhat a BC tenancy agreement must contain under the RTA, the mistakes that weaken it, and how to prepare one in Tenon10 with the current standard terms.
Rights & LegalHelping a parent or friend with their BC rental needs no licence if it is truly free. Paid or in-kind help usually does, unless an exemption fits.
GeneralWho needs a BCFSA licence to manage rentals in BC, the licence levels and exemptions, how licensing works, and the service-agreement and record rules that follow.
Maintenance & RepairsWhat BC's Residential Tenancy Act and Real Estate Services Rules require of a rental property management brokerage, turned into a checklist for choosing software.
Rights & LegalSince July 24, 2026, the Landlord and Tenant Board's final orders have been publishing to Ontario's Open Data Catalogue — free, no login, monthly updates, with history filling back to December 2021 in phases. It's the biggest transparency shift the rental market has seen in years, and the most misused tool of the fall:
Rights & LegalOn 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
Rights & LegalFrom September 1, 2026, serving an N13 in Mississauga starts a second clock the province doesn't run: within seven days, the landlord must apply to the City for a Rental Repairs and Renovations Licence — and no work starts, and no tenant leaves, until both the building permit and the licence are in hand. Here's the mun
Market TrendsEvery stalled listing has a specific broken stage, and almost no Ontario landlord knows which one theirs is. Views without enquiries is a pricing or photography problem. Enquiries without showings is a reply problem. Showings without applications means the unit or the listing is overselling. Applications without a sign
GeneralPost a well-priced unit in a decent Ontario market and you will not get three enquiries — you will get forty, most of them within the first forty-eight hours, most of them one line long, and a meaningful share of them from people who will never reply again. This is the triage system: how to structure the listing so the
Safety & Scam PreventionA 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
Market TrendsDays-on-market is the number every Ontario landlord guesses at and almost nobody measures — and the guess usually runs in the expensive direction. This piece puts a real figure on it: what current listing data says about how long a unit actually sits in Toronto, Ottawa, Hamilton, and the smaller Ontario markets, why th
Rental Pricing & ROIFree rental listing sites are genuinely good now — the question is which ones earn a spot in your posting routine, because "free" varies: some sites are free forever, some are free tiers with paid upsells, and some are free in one city and paid in another. Here's the honest ranking for Canadian landlords: the sites wor
Finances & BudgetingEvery landlord knows vacancy costs money; almost none has done the arithmetic — which is why units sit unlisted for "just another week" of painting, and why underpriced-versus-vacant decisions get made on instinct. Here's the per-day math done properly: what an empty unit costs in rent alone, what it costs fully loaded
Screening & ApplicationsThe reference call is screening's cheapest instrument and its most badly run: most landlords either skip it, ask questions that invite rehearsed answers, or drift into territory the Human Rights Code governs even on a phone call. Here's the call done properly — why previous landlords beat current ones, the twelve quest
Screening & ApplicationsThe tenant credit check is the most misunderstood step in Ontario screening — landlords fear it's complicated, applicants fear it hurts their score, and both fears are out of date. Here's the whole process: the written consent that must come first, where to actually run the check (and what each route costs), why rental
Screening & ApplicationsThe 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
Tools & EvaluationsNine places Ontario landlords actually list rentals — Kijiji, Facebook Marketplace, Craigslist, Rentals.ca, Zumper, PadMapper, ViewIt.ca, RentSeeker, and the agent-gated Realtor.ca — compared honestly on cost, audience, posting friction, scam exposure, and where each one earns its place. Dated cells, no pay-to-play, an
Rights & LegalAdvertising 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
Rent & PaymentsOntario'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
Screening & ApplicationsLTB orders became public data on July 24, 2026, and the screening question became live the same day: can a landlord look up a prospective tenant's Board history — and act on it? The honest answer has two halves: no law forbids reading a public order, and the Human Rights Code governs every rental decision exactly as it
Rights & LegalOttawa city council passed its Rental Renovation Licence bylaw 21–5 on July 15, 2026, and it takes effect January 1, 2027: a municipal licence within 7 days of issuing an N13, a building permit secured before the notice goes out, and a city-produced tenant rights guide served alongside it. Here's what the bylaw actuall
Tools & EvaluationsThis is the last comparison in our series, and it's about a kinship: both of these tools care about single-family rentals — the scattered houses, duplexes, and townhomes that make up most Canadian landlords' portfolios. Propertyware has spent almost twenty years serving that segment at company scale: it's built, in its
Tools & EvaluationsHere's a comparison between twins of a different kind: both of these tools give a 1-to-3-unit landlord a genuinely free plan — not a trial, a product. Landlord Studio pairs its free tier with the deepest DIY bookkeeping stack at this end of the market: live bank feeds, receipt scanning, smart rules that sort your trans
Tools & EvaluationsHere's the strangest comparison in our series: these two tools chose almost the same shape. Rentec Direct's entry plans run $45–$55 USD a month covering up to 25 units; Tenon10's Pro runs $49 CAD for the same twenty-five. Both price flat. Both publish their numbers. Neither requires a contract. Both get praised by revi
Tools & EvaluationsFor the first time in this series, the comparison isn't decided before it starts. liv.rent is Canadian — Vancouver-built, CAD-priced, genuinely liked — so the two arguments that carried our Buildium, AppFolio, and DoorLoop pages simply don't apply. What's left is a better question than "which is cheaper in whose curren
Rights & LegalCompliance doesn't scale smoothly with your portfolio — it steps. A purchaser's own-use notice works at three units and fails at four. Fire alarm obligations change character the day a building has a monitored system. Toronto's RentSafeTO program switches on at three storeys and ten units, the multi-residential tax cla
Finances & BudgetingEvery property management fee conversation in Canada starts from the same two numbers — 6 to 12 percent of rent collected, with the national average near 8 to 10 — and almost every expensive mistake happens after that sentence ends. The headline percentage isn't the price: leasing fees, renewals, inspections, and maint
Rights & LegalA housing co-op looks like a rental building and runs like a small democracy: members instead of tenants, occupancy charges instead of rent, by-laws instead of a lease, and a board — not a landlord — in charge. For property managers, that changes the client, the money, and the eviction machinery entirely: the Co-operat
Rights & LegalEvery rental file is a privacy file: applications, credit checks, IDs, camera footage, smart-entry logs. Under PIPEDA, landlords and property managers are data custodians with real obligations — consent, purpose limits, safeguards, 30-day access requests, and mandatory breach reporting with fines up to $100,000. Here's
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