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    What to Include in an Ontario Rental Application

    The rental application is the one screening document you design in advance — and Ontario law effectively writes its table of contents: five authorized information categories, a written consent block for the credit check, and a short list of fields that should never appear (starting with the SIN line most template forms

    15 min read
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    What You Can and Can't Ask a Rental Applicant in Ontario

    Every rental application is a list of questions, and Ontario law has an opinion about all of them: five things are expressly authorized (income, consented credit checks, references, rental history, guarantees — weighed together, never income alone), the Human Rights Code's protected grounds are flatly off-limits, and a

    10 min read
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    Credit Checks for Ontario Landlords: How to Run One Legally

    A credit check is one of the few screening tools Ontario law actually permits — but only if you do it right. This guide shows landlords how to get consent, run the check, read the report, and use it lawfully under the Human Rights Code, including the 2026 rules that make rental credit checks a no-score-impact soft inqu

    10 min read
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    Tenant Application Red Flags: What Ontario Landlords Should Watch For

    A clean-looking application can still hide trouble. This guide walks Ontario landlords through the real red flags on a rental application — refusal to consent, inconsistent details, references that don't check out, gaps in rental history — and, just as importantly, how to act on them lawfully without crossing into Huma

    12 min read