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Maintenance & RepairsWhen an Ontario landlord ignores a leak, tenants have three real tools: a written record, the municipality's property standards office, and a T6 application at the Landlord and Tenant Board.
Maintenance & RepairsKeeping drains clear is part of an Ontario landlord's repair duty. A tenant pays only when a blockage came from their own wilful or negligent conduct, and the landlord has to prove it.
Maintenance & RepairsA burst pipe lets an Ontario landlord enter without notice. A dripping tap does not, even if the tenant asked for the repair. Here is how the entry rules apply to plumbing.
Maintenance & RepairsOntario's maintenance standards require plumbing to be protected from freezing, and that duty sits with the landlord. Here is when a tenant can be charged, what Toronto's by-laws add and how to prevent a burst.
News & Policy UpdatesHAMILTON, Oct. 28, 2026: Keanin Loomis leads Hamilton's unofficial mayoral results with 41.77% of the vote. The City's rental by-laws and Ontario's rent rules do not change because of the vote.
News & Policy UpdatesOTTAWA, Oct. 27, 2026: Mark Sutcliffe leads Ottawa's unofficial mayoral results with 44.65%. City rental by-laws and Ontario's rent rules don't change with the vote; here is what to watch.
News & Policy UpdatesTORONTO, Oct. 27, 2026: Olivia Chow leads Toronto's unofficial mayoral count with 54.16% and all polls reporting. City rental bylaws and Ontario's rent rules do not change with the vote.
Safety & Scam PreventionSmoke 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.
Safety & Scam PreventionTSSA published a carbon monoxide backgrounder ahead of CO Awareness Week (Nov. 1–7). Here is what the Fire Code requires of landlords for Ontario carbon monoxide alarms before winter.
Rights & LegalAn N13 renoviction runs on paper, and from September 21, 2026 there's more of it: Bill 97 amends the RTA's right-of-first-refusal rules, adding written-notification duties for landlords once a tenant has preserved the right — including keeping the tenant updated when the completion date slips, which it usually does. Th
Rights & LegalSince July 1, 2026, the clock to challenge a Landlord and Tenant Board order has run half as long: a Request to Review must be filed within 15 days of the order's issue date — down from 30 — under new s.209(3) of the RTA, with orders issued before that date keeping the old deadline. Two months in, the mistakes have a p
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:
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
Safety & Scam PreventionRental scams run in both directions, and most guides only warn one side. Tenants get burned by cloned listings, phantom units, and deposit-wire pressure; landlords get burned by their own photos scamming their own applicants, fake pay stubs, and overpayment cheques. Here's the two-sided defence: the scam patterns by na
Rights & LegalOntario pet law does something almost nobody expects, and both sides routinely get it backwards: at the application stage, a landlord may generally choose not to rent to someone because they have a pet — but once the tenancy exists, a "no pets" lease clause is void, and a tenant who gets a pet after moving in usually c
Rights & LegalYes — and almost everything attached to that yes is where landlords get into trouble and tenants overpay. First month's rent is just rent; last month's is Ontario's only legal deposit, capped at one rental period, earning interest every year at that year's guideline rate. Damage, security, cleaning, and pet deposits ar
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 & LegalThree Ontario cities now license renovation evictions, and a pattern has emerged: all three give landlords seven days from the N13 to apply, and almost everything else differs — Hamilton charges $715 per unit with annual renewals, Toronto $700 with compensation proven before approval, and Ottawa (from January 1, 2027)
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
Rights & LegalAs of July 24, 2026, the LTB's final orders are public data: every non-confidential order from January through May 2026 is live on Ontario's Open Data Catalogue, with orders back to 2021 following in phases and new ones publishing monthly — on a disclosed 2-to-3-month lag. This guide covers what's in the release and wh
Rights & LegalNot every tenancy has to end at the Landlord and Tenant Board. Ontario law gives landlords and tenants several legal ways to part company without an eviction hearing — the N11 mutual agreement and cash-for-keys deal, the tenant's own N9 notice, assignment, and negotiated moves — each faster than the queue when done rig
Rights & LegalEvery LTB journey follows the same road: a notice, an application on the Tribunals Ontario Portal, a queue, a fork at mediation, a hearing, an order — and sometimes the Sheriff. This pillar guide maps the entire process end to end for landlords, tenants, and property managers: which notice starts which application, wha
Rights & LegalAn LTB eviction order is not possession — only the Sheriff can enforce it, and the Sheriff has a queue of their own. This guide covers the whole after-the-order world for landlords and tenants: the filing package and the six-month deadline, the fees and the regional wait, the Notice to Vacate, what actually happens on
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