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The Ontario Tenant Screening Compliance Checklist
The Human Rights Code permits five things you may ask a rental applicant — and one regulation controls exactly how you use them. This free checklist walks you through a screening process that holds up, including the income rule almost every Ontario landlord gets wrong.
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All 5 steps
- Delete every rent-to-income ratio from your criteria, your form and your software — the Commission calls the 30% cut-off illegal
- Request all of it: credit references, rental history, consent to a credit check, and income — asking for income alone breaks the rule
- Know the twist: if you asked for everything and only income came back, income alone is permitted
- Treat an absence of credit history as missing information, not bad information
- Read the criteria your screening software applies — automation does not transfer liability
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