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 302 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.
4 of 302 guides
Showing Ontario 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.
Ontario'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.
Every message to a tenant carries a legal weight — and most landlords can't tell the three tiers apart. Some things must be LTB forms, and no friendly letter can substitute. Some must be written with exact contents the RTA prescribes: the 24-hour entry notice's reason, date, and time; the email-service consent that mak
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,