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Rights & LegalIf your BC landlord will not fix a problem, you do not have to withhold rent or do it yourself. Here is the path from a written request to an RTB order for repairs, a rent reduction and compensation.
Rights & LegalBC tenants must give written notice that reaches the landlord a full rental month before they leave. Here is how to count it, what to include, and what to do before move-out.
Rights & LegalEvery ground for a BC One Month Notice for Cause, how to set the effective date, what the RTB-33 needs, service and deemed receipt, the tenant's 10-day window and enforcing an order of possession.
Rights & LegalWhen BC condition inspections must happen, how to offer two opportunities, what the report must contain, the 7- and 15-day copy deadlines, and what each side loses by skipping them.
Rights & LegalA complete guide to applying for dispute resolution at BC's Residential Tenancy Branch: deadlines, the four processes, forms, fees and waivers, serving the other party, evidence, and reviews.
Rights & LegalA BC tenancy can end by agreement, but only in writing. Here is what Form RTB-8 contains, what a mutual agreement cannot do, and how to handle these agreements across many units.
Rights & LegalIf your BC landlord does not return your deposit, get your written agreement or apply to the RTB within 15 days, you may be owed double. Here is how it works.
Rights & LegalA BC 10 Day Notice for unpaid rent gives you 5 days to act. Here is how to count your deadline, your options to pay or dispute, and where to get help.
Rights & LegalYour B.C. rent can rise by at most 2.2% in 2027. Here is what that means in dollars, when it can start, and how to check your notice.
Rights & LegalHow B.C. tenants can check whether a rent increase is lawful, what to do if it is not, and how to recover an overpayment.
Rights & LegalSince July 1, 2026, the clock to challenge a Landlord and Tenant Board order has run half as long: a Request to Review must be filed within 15 days of the order's issue date — down from 30 — under new s.209(3) of the RTA, with orders issued before that date keeping the old deadline. Two months in, the mistakes have a p
Rights & LegalSince July 24, 2026, the Landlord and Tenant Board's final orders have been publishing to Ontario's Open Data Catalogue — free, no login, monthly updates, with history filling back to December 2021 in phases. It's the biggest transparency shift the rental market has seen in years, and the most misused tool of the fall:
Rights & LegalAdvertising a rental in Ontario is a five-step craft with a legal layer at every step: confirm the unit can lawfully be listed, price it to the market that exists, write and shoot a listing that works, choose platforms deliberately (only one major site is agent-gated), and run enquiries without drowning. This pillar co
Rights & LegalScaling 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
Rights & LegalEvery 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
Rights & LegalVirtual tours, video walkthroughs, and lockbox self-showings promise to fill vacancies faster — but Ontario's entry rules didn't get the memo. This guide maps where showing tech is genuinely legal and useful (vacant units, video pre-screening), where it collides with the RTA (self-showings in occupied units, filming a
Rights & LegalEvery guide in this series ends the same way: "…and then you wait." This one measures the wait. Arrears cases now schedule in about three months; most other applications take five to seven; some tenant applications have taken years. How Ontario's busiest tribunal fell from 32-day orders to a 53,000-case backlog, what t
Rights & LegalYour landlord's duty to repair is absolute — but it enforces itself exactly never. The T6 is the application that turns ignored repair requests into orders: rent abatements, deadlines, reimbursements, even a freeze on rent increases until the work is done. It costs $48, runs on a one-year clock, and lives or dies on da
Rights & LegalYou've confirmed your AGI grounds — now comes the paperwork. The L5 is the LTB's most unusual filing: it skips the portal entirely, runs on an Excel form with strict naming rules, demands every receipt up front, and bills $233-plus before anyone reads a word. Here's the complete filing walkthrough — schedules, RUI, fee
Rights & Legal"Can my partner move in?" is a simple question with a layered answer. Occupant, authorized occupant, or co-tenant — each status carries different rights, and only one adds a second person fully responsible for the rent. Here's how to add a co-tenant properly: the paperwork that works, the joint-and-several prize, the a
Rights & LegalOntario's right of first refusal used to fail at the follow-through: tenants left, renovations dragged, and nobody wrote. The new rules change the physics — missed updates or a skipped 60-day window are now deemed a denial of the right itself. Here's the complete lifecycle: the letter before you leave, the notices the
Rights & LegalBill 60 gives Ontario landlords a new choice on own-use evictions: serve the N12 the fast way and pay a month's compensation, or give at least 120 days' notice and pay nothing. On a $3,000 unit, that timing choice is worth $3,000. This guide breaks down exactly how the new 120-day path works under RTA s.48.1(2), when i
Rights & LegalIf your rental was first occupied after November 15, 2018, the annual guideline doesn't cap your rent increases — but using the N1 instead of the N2, skipping the 90-day notice, or failing to prove the exemption can void the increase entirely. Here's how the N2 actually works.
Rights & LegalTenant insurance isn't required by Ontario law — but your lease can require liability coverage, and skipping it can put your tenancy at risk. Here's what landlords can and can't demand under the standard lease, what coverage actually protects you, and how to get insured for less than a dollar a day.
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