Landlord Services Including Legal Advocacy Involving Various Residential Tenancy Issues

Sometimes a tenant will appeal an Order of eviction merely for the purpose of obtaining a Stay of the eviction process as a means of gaming the system and...

What Can a Landlord Ask a Prospective Tenant Who Is Applying For a Rental Unit? A Landlord May Make Inquiries About Rental History, Credit References, and...

The presumption that a tenant is legally obligated to vacate a rental unit in the same condition as the tenant received the unit is incorrect.  A tenant is...

Can a Landlord Disclose Payment History to a Credit Bureau Without Consent From the Tenant? Understanding Specific Legal Issue Details Here Including...

When a landlord engages a real estate agent to assist in selling a tenanted property, both the landlord and the agent owe duties and responsibilities to the...

Being a landlord in Ontario is not easy.  On top of the regular challenges that you will face like screening tenants, advertising your unit, carrying...

When a landlord wishes to sell a property, in certain circumstances the tenants may be required to vacate; however, the requirements for lawfully evicting...

With changes to occupier liability law that now imposes a duty to inform the landlord of a Notice of Slip & Fall incident, what may happen if the tenant fails...

Generally, the duty of property maintenance falls upon the landlord; and accordingly, the landlord is required to perform snow shoveling and lawn mowing, among...

A landlord must enter a unit between 8:00am and 8:00pm; however, the twelve (12) hour period for entry within which a landlord may enter is without an...

When increasing the rent rate applicable to most residential tenancy arrangements, a landlord must provide the tenant with proper notice via the required form...

A common challenge for landlords are termination notices.  When to give them, how to give them, the information listed in them, and what do if they make a...

If a Landlord Outsourced Maintenance Services Can a Landlord Still Be Liable For Injuries? As Owner of the Premises a Landlord Holds the Care and Control...

When a landlord wishes to, or needs to, ask a tenant to leave so to enable the landlord to perform renovations to the rental unit, the landlord is required to...

Being a landlord is being in business.  Business comes with challenges.  The landlord business comes with very unique challenges requiring an understanding of...

The smoking habits of a tenant may cause interference in the reasonable enjoyment of neighbouring units occupied by other tenants or even neighbour properties...

A lease term purporting to delegate the duty of snow shoveling to a tenant is problematic for a landlord whereas such is usually unenforceable and the landlord...

The maintenance requirements imposed upon a landlord per the Residential Tenancies Act, 2006 appear as without limit to the triviality of the concern. 

The Landlord Tenant Board requires that legal processes be commenced only by persons authorized by the Law Society Act to do so.  Where processes are commenced...

Sometimes a tenant (but possibly a landlord) will misuse the processes of the Landlord Tenant Board as a tool and method to victimize the other.  When such...