Landlord Guide
This page is designed for clients of the Refined team who own investment properties that they rent out to tenants. If you’d like to read a selection of articles related to income properties, here’s where you can find all the articles we’re written on that topic.
If you’re looking for useful links for landlords, then you may find the below listing helpful. Wee regularly update the page to make sure the links are current but please let us know if there are any issues.
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The rent increase guideline for 2022 is 1.2%.
The guideline is the maximum a landlord can increase most tenants’ rent during a year without the approval of the Landlord and Tenant Board.
For most tenants, your rent can’t go up by more than the rent increase guideline for every year.
The guideline applies to most private residential rental units covered by the Residential Tenancies Act, 2006. This applies to most tenants, such as those living in:
- rented houses, apartments, basement apartments and condos (see exceptions for newly occupied units)
- care homes
- mobile homes
- land lease communities
The guideline does not apply to certain types of units including:
- vacant residential units
- community housing units
- long-term care homes
- commercial properties
A guide, in multiple languages, to help landlords and tenants understand and complete the Standard Form of Lease (standard lease). It also contains information on rental rules, and rights and responsibilities of landlords and tenants under the Residential Tenancies Act.
Landlord’s Self-Help Centre is a non-profit specialty community legal clinic funded by Legal Aid Ontario and mandated to provide support to Ontario’s small landlord community exclusively. We are not a branch of or affiliated with the Landlord and Tenant Board.
LSHC provides general information, summary advice and referrals to the small landlord community across Ontario. It develops educational materials and outreach initiatives intended to help small landlords learn and gain a better understanding of their rights and responsibilities as they navigate the regulatory environment which governs residential tenancies in Ontario. LSHC is able help thousands of small landlords every year with a staff of just five community legal workers.
The Landlord and Tenant Board (LTB) was created by the Residential Tenancies Act (RTA) on January 31, 2007. The RTA gives residential landlords and tenants rights and responsibilities, and sets out a process for enforcing them. The RTA also sets out the process for resolving non-profit housing co-operative (“co-op”) eviction disputes.
The role of the LTB is to:
- resolve disputes between landlords and tenants through mediation or adjudication
- resolve eviction applications from co-ops
- provide information to landlords and tenants about their rights and responsibilities under the RTA
The forms provided by the LTB are designed for both landlords as well as tenants.
The Landlord and Tenant Board (LTB) was created by the Residential Tenancies Act (RTA) on January 31, 2007. The RTA gives residential landlords and tenants rights and responsibilities, and sets out a process for enforcing them. The RTA also sets out the process for resolving non-profit housing co-operative (“co-op”) eviction disputes.
The role of the LTB is to:
- resolve disputes between landlords and tenants through mediation or adjudication
- resolve eviction applications from co-ops
- provide information to landlords and tenants about their rights and responsibilities under the RTA
The LTB has provided a list of common concerns that landlords may have about a tenancy and what can be done about them and the link to that is below.
This independent site (no government, agency or organization affiliation) has a web guide to Ontario’s Landlord and Tenant Act, the Residential Tenancies Act, tenants’ rights, social justice, and rental housing issues.
It contains links to useful resources as well as original content.