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 Is a Cash-For-Keys Deal? Rather Than Risk the Win-Lose Outcome That Will Be the Result of a Landlord Tenant Board Hearing a Landlord and Tenant May...

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 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,...

Disputes between a landlord and tenant when a toilet overflows or a sewage backup occurs are often heightened by misuse allegations. 

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...

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...

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...

Can a Landlord Be Liable For Injuries Caused By 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...

A landlord may require a tenant to obtain and provide proof of liability insurance as long as such a mandate is contained within a valid lease. 

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

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...

While it would seem that where rent is defined within a lease agreement as a specified dollar amount plus utilities, the issue of unpaid utilities should come...

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...