GeneralThe Half-Month Cap: How Much Deposit a BC Landlord Can Collect
BC caps security and pet damage deposits at half of the first month's rent each. Here are the numbers, the exemptions and what happens if you collect too much.
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Rights & LegalCan You Ask for First and Last Month's Rent in Ontario?
Yes — 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
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Rights & LegalOnboarding New Owner Clients: The First 30 Days That Decide the Next Five Years
Every property management relationship is decided twice — once in the service agreement, and once in the thirty days after it's signed. Onboarding a new owner client is where the custody inventory arrives, the lease files get audited, the deposits get reconciled, the tenants get one calm letter, and the working rhythm
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Finances & BudgetingPre-Construction Condo as a Rental in Ontario: The Two Closings, the HST Trap, and the Unit You Don't Own Yet
A pre-construction condo is the only rental you'll pay for years before you own — through staged deposits, an interim-occupancy period of "phantom rent" that builds no equity, and a final closing where investors discover the advertised price assumed someone else's rebate. This guide maps the whole timeline for Ontario
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Rights & LegalThe T1 Application: Getting Money Back From Your Landlord
Key deposits. Pet fees. An unreturned last month's rent. Interest nobody ever paid. N12 compensation that never arrived. Ontario law makes all of it recoverable — through one application with eight grounds and a filing fee under $60. But the T1 runs on a strict one-year lookback, and unchallenged rent increases become
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Moving & SettlingMove-In and Move-Out Inspections in Ontario: The Right Way to Document a Rental
Ontario doesn't legally require a move-in or move-out inspection — but skipping one is how landlords lose damage claims and tenants lose deposits. Because Ontario bans damage deposits, an inspection report isn't a deduction tool; it's your evidence at the Landlord and Tenant Board. Here's how to document a rental prope
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