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Maintenance & RepairsSaskatchewan landlords must keep rentals in good repair and fit for habitation, including heating, plumbing and appliances; tenants keep units clean and fix damage they cause. Here is who fixes what and how the ORT enforces it.
Maintenance & RepairsAfter a water leak in an Ontario rental, who pays depends on the cause, whose property was damaged and what insurance each side carries. Here is how the Residential Tenancies Act divides it.
Maintenance & RepairsThe landlord pays for heating repairs caused by age and normal use; the tenant pays only for undue damage caused wilfully or negligently. Where the line falls, and how a landlord recovers the cost.
Maintenance & RepairsIn Ontario, a landlord must fix drafty windows in a rental unit under RTA s.20; the tenant pays only for damage they caused. What the standards say, what to do first and what the LTB can order.
Maintenance & RepairsHeat, water, electricity, gas — these are "vital services" in Ontario, and a landlord can't withhold or deliberately interfere with them, ever. Not for unpaid rent, not for a damaged unit, not until an eviction is actually enforced. There's a minimum heat standard (and stricter city bylaws), a rule that makes the landl