Landlord Services Including Legal Advocacy Involving Various Residential Tenancy Issues

A landlord may keep, sell, or dispose of, the abandoned belongings of a former tenant; however, the rights and duties imposed upon a landlord differ depending...

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 to Rent An Apartment? A Landlord May Ask a Prospective Tenant For Rental History Details 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...

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...

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

The withdrawal of legacy services, meaning parking, laundry, storage, among other things, that were historically included throughout the tenancy arrangement,...

Does the Residential Tenancies Act Apply If a Landlord Moves In and Becomes a Roommate of a Tenant? The Residential Tenancies Act...

A landlord is required to provide safekeeping for the property of a deceased tenant for thirty days following the death of a tenant.  Additionally, the lease...

Surprisingly, a landlord may, in some cases, become liable for injury or damage caused by the animals owned by a tenant. 

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...

Is a Landlord Liable For Injuries Arising From Poor Maintenance If the Maintenance Was Outsourced? As Owner of the Premises a Landlord Holds the Care and...

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...

After lease terms are set, either by writing or by conduct, a party to the lease, either landlord or tenant, are forbidden from unilaterally changing the...

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...