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Dear friends, This story could be titled: how to litigate 3 times at the LTB in order to save 35 dollars and 18 cents. A couple of months ago, I showed you an LTB decision where the tenant first rented a room, then the whole apartment, and then a room again, all within the same apartment. We treated this as 3 different tenancies, each with its own agreement. The adjudicator at the first hearing agreed with us. The disputed issue was the last month’s rent deposit that the tena

Dear friends, Let me share an interesting and instructive case. A tenant was inconsistent with payments and refused to pay for water. We filed an application seeking payment of the water arrears. There are two key points in this case. First, the tenant argued that we filed the wrong application. We filed an L2 application one day before the tenant returned the keys to the landlord. If he had already moved out (not in possession), we would have had to file an L10 and serve the

At some point, every LTB paralegal ends up evicting the same tenant twice. For me, that didn’t take long. The tenant we evicted in June 2025 found a new place, paid first and last, and moved in. With the new landlord, things didn’t work out from the start, and in his view, not paying rent was only fair. This case is interesting for two reasons. First: the tenant paid the amount listed on the N4 just a few hours before the termination date. Proud of himself and how “cleverly”

Dear friends, I want to share a very recent case from the Divisional Court that I found interesting and useful for landlords, especially large landlords who use property managers. The facts of this case are simple. A tenant signed a lease with the landlord and moved into the house. At some point, he sublet one room to a woman with a child for $1,000 per month. In June 2023, the main tenant was accused of criminal activity and had to vacate the property. And this is where a ne

Dear friends, I want to share with you a very recent case from the Divisional Court — the court that hears appeals from the LTB. Briefly, the situation was as follows. The tenant paid rent with delays, often not in one payment but in several payments at different times, and she also underpaid part of the rent because she decided that if she had counterclaims against the landlord, she was entitled to withhold part of the rent (spoiler — she is not). At the LTB, the adjudicator

Dear friends, Our government has introduced yet another bill — Bill 60, the Fighting Delays, Building Faster Act, 2025 — put forward by Ontario’s ruling Progressive Conservative Party. I’ll focus only on the proposed changes to the Residential Tenancies Act (RTA) and share a few short comments from the perspective of a practicing paralegal. Section 43 RTA deals with how a notice to a tenant (a Notice of Termination) must look. Right now, the form must be approved by the Landl