Ontario Tenants Rights

Remember that the landlord must give you at least 90 days written notice of the rent increase before it can take effect. Also note that if the Ontario Landlord and Tenant Board has already approved any Above Guideline Increases in your rent those do apply - it is just the guideline itself that is zero. Here is a list of past annual guideline rent increases.

If you pay your own hydro bill directly (that is, it is not included in the rent,) you may qualify for a reduction on your electricity bills. Click on Ontario Electricity Rebates to find out more information from the Ontario Electricity Board, an agency of the Government of Ontario.

For the many people asking what is the law on minimum apartment temperature, this is regulated by your city or town, and the list covering 95% of apartments in Ontario municipalities can be found at Minimum Apartment Temperature by-laws.

Save and print out this Tenant Poster in Microsoft Word format. If you are happy with the work of this web site it would be greatly appreciated if you were to put up one or more of these half-page posters, in your laundry room, community centre, grocery store or other bulletin board, to inform other tenants of this free web site. And yes, the bottom of the page needs a few cuts to separate the tags with the address of this web site. Thank you.

Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, an arm of the our federal government, twice yearly reports on rents and vacancy rates throughout Canada. These figures provided by landlords are used by all levels of government to help set housing policy. They are also widely reported by the media and influence the public's impression of rental housing costs.

Read my press release: CMHC Rental Market Survey on why the rent statistics for Ontario are inherently inaccurate, and why comparing one year to the next is like comparing apples to oranges. Canada Mortgage and Housing figures in recent year under-report real rental costs and therefore under-report the rate of rent increases.

2019 Rent control changes to the Residential Tenancies Act are completely exempt from rent controls under the Residential Tenancies Act. See: what about Rent Controls.

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