Topics
What we cover, and every post filed under each.
What a landlord may lawfully collect at the start of a tenancy and what they may not: last month's rent, key deposits, application and administration fees, and how the money has to be handled once it is paid.
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The grounds a landlord can evict on, the notices each one requires, and what happens between a notice landing and a hearing being decided — including what the published orders show about how often those applications succeed.
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Legislation and the debate around it: provincial tenancy acts and their amendments, municipal licensing and inspection regimes, federal housing programs, and what a change on paper means for somebody signing a lease next month.
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Who owns rental housing in Canada: corporate portfolios and the numbered companies that hold them, what a landlord's filing history shows, and how to find out who is actually behind the name on a lease.
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The standard lease and what can and cannot be added to it: terms that are unenforceable whatever the paper says, subletting and assignment, what happens when a fixed term ends, and how a tenancy is properly brought to a close.
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Evictions for renovation and for a landlord's own use: what the law requires before one is valid, the compensation and right of first refusal a tenant is owed, and how adjudicators have treated claims that turned out to be pretextual.
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Which homes are covered and which are not: the annual guideline in each province, the new-build and vacancy exemptions that quietly remove a unit from control, and how a tenant works out which rules apply to the place they live in.
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What a landlord may raise the rent by and when: notice periods and their formal requirements, above-guideline applications and what they are allowed to recover, and the gap between what an increase notice says and what a tenant actually owes.
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What renting in Canada actually costs: reported rents and how they move, what turnover does to the asking price of a unit, vacancy, and the difference between advertised rents and what sitting tenants pay.
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A landlord's obligation to keep a home in repair, what a tenant can do when they do not, and what municipal inspection regimes like RentSafeTO record about the condition of a building before anybody moves in.
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The protections that hold regardless of what a lease says — privacy and a landlord's right of entry, freedom from harassment and retaliation, human rights obligations in housing, and where a tenant goes when one of them is breached.
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What the Landlord and Tenant Board and its provincial equivalents actually decide. Published orders are a public record of how the rules are applied in practice, and this is where we read them at scale rather than one case at a time.
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