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The Line Kit: Holiday Rentals & the Guest-Tenant Line in Ontario — the Substance Test, Both Playbooks, and the Compliance Stack
The line between a holiday guest and a legal tenant isn't drawn by a 28-day calendar — it's drawn by substance, and getting it wrong cuts both ways. This free kit gives Ontario hosts and occupants the actual test (who, what pattern, why and how long), the hotel-grade playbook that keeps the exemption, the licensing-tax-safety-insurance stack in Toronto's API era, and the rights no booking label can remove. Two printable pages for both sides of the line.
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All 5 steps
- Run the line test before every stay: who the occupant is, what the pattern looks like, why and how long
- Forget the 28-day myth — that's Toronto's licensing line, not the tenancy switch
- Run the exempt side like a hotel: booking language, services, defined check-outs, STR insurance
- Never serve LTB forms on a genuine guest — and never lock out a genuine tenant
- Mid-term "bookings" of 30 days to 6 months are probable tenancies — use the Standard Lease
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