Landlord & Tenant

Landlord and tenant law in Ontario is unusually rule-bound: the outcome of a dispute often depends less on who was unreasonable than on which form was used, when it was served, and what the Act says about that date. These guides walk through the framework both sides are operating inside — the Residential Tenancies Act and the Landlord and Tenant Board, the notices that end a tenancy and why only the Board can order an eviction, how the annual rent-increase guideline works and which units sit outside it, the compensation and bad-faith rules that apply to own-use and renovation notices, and how to tell a law that has passed from a law that is in force. They are written for landlords and tenants together, because in practice each side needs to understand the other's position to judge its own. Where a figure changes yearly, we point you to the current source rather than printing a number that will age.

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