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  • Human Rights in BC Rentals: Who a Landlord Cannot RefuseRights & Legal
    BCArticle

    Human Rights in BC Rentals: Who a Landlord Cannot Refuse

    Section 10 of BC's Human Rights Code bars a landlord from refusing a tenant, or setting worse terms, because of 14 personal characteristics, including family status and lawful source of income. Here are the grounds, the narrow exceptions, and how complaints work.

    7 min read
  • Tenant Screening in Ontario: What the Human Rights Code Actually Lets You AskRights & Legal
    ONArticle

    Tenant Screening in Ontario: What the Human Rights Code Actually Lets You Ask

    Most Ontario landlords screen on income first — three times the rent, or a 30% cut-off. The Human Rights Commission says that rule is illegal, and the regulation makes income the one tool you can't use on its own. Credit and rental history can stand alone. Income can't. Here's what you may actually ask.

    24 min read
  • How to Scale a Rental Portfolio in Ontario: From First Door to TwentyRights & Legal
    ONArticle

    How to Scale a Rental Portfolio in Ontario: From First Door to Twenty

    Scaling a rental portfolio isn't buying the first property eleven more times — it's a ladder with three rungs and a wall between each. Rungs one through four run on residential rules: 20% down, the stress test, your personal income carrying every door. Then comes the wall almost nobody warns you about: most major banks

    20 min read
  • The N6 Notice in Ontario: Ending a Tenancy for Illegal Acts or Misrepresented RGI IncomeRights & Legal
    ONArticle

    The N6 Notice in Ontario: Ending a Tenancy for Illegal Acts or Misrepresented RGI Income

    The N6 is Ontario's notice for two serious situations: illegal acts at the rental unit, and misrepresented income in rent-geared-to-income housing. It carries the shortest notice periods in the LTB stack — 10 or 20 days — and no remedy window, but the burden of proving what happened at the hearing is entirely the landl

    13 min read