The Ontario Rental Application Blueprint

No official application form exists in Ontario — the law hands you the table of contents, and this blueprint turns it into a document: all eight sections with field checklists and the wording notes that matter (count never composition, the majority checkbox instead of a birthdate, the first-timer route printed on the form), the credit consent block done properly with no SIN field anywhere, the never-fields list drawn from real circulating templates, and the four habits that keep the form clean — the annual one-test audit, the two-version rule, intake date-stamping, and the retention promise your filing cabinet must keep.

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