Fire in an Ontario Rental: What Landlords and Tenants Must Do
Smoke and CO alarm duties under Ontario's Fire Code, and what happens after a fire: repairs, frustration, rent, moving back, entry, tenant-caused damage and insurance.
Narrow 307 published guides by topic, province, who you are and the kind of help you need. Every filter shows how many guides it leaves.
Shaded tiles have guides written for that province.
2 of 307 guides
Showing Ontario, for tenants matching “Landlord Entry”, newest first.
Smoke and CO alarm duties under Ontario's Fire Code, and what happens after a fire: repairs, frustration, rent, moving back, entry, tenant-caused damage and insurance.
Your landlord can't just show up. In Ontario, entering your rental almost always takes 24 hours' written notice, stating the reason and a time between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. — and the LTB enforces that to the minute. But there are narrow exceptions (a real emergency, your consent at the door), a fixed list of valid reasons,