Remember a year ago when there were public meetings on the issue of long-term affordable housing, I think Jim Watson was Minister at the time?  Well today Rick Bartolucci, Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing released the results of the…

There has been a lot of press lately about hoarding, bed-bugs and fires.  I say them together in one breath as in rental housing, they are usually connected.  Manifestations of obsessive compulsive behaviour often cause hoarding.  Hoarding causes infestation.  Hoarding…

Suite Metering Rules Finally Arrive for Ontario LandlordsAfter years of controversy and delay, suite metering regulations in Ontario will come into force on January 1st, 2011.  When the Residential Tenancies Act was proclaimed in January of 2007, section 137 and…

In a Toronto Sun article today, Tamara Cherry accurately depicts the problems related to bed bugs occurring in many Toronto rental units.  But it's not just social housing high-rises like 200 Wellesley where compulsive hoarding occurs.  People renting from private…

I hope you read the previous post (3 below) and read the Toronto Sun column written by Michele Mandel.  She did a great job exposing a predator.  This evening at about 7:30 pm, the police pulled the tenant, her son…

My friends at FRPO sent out this eye-opening news today.Ontario NDP MPP Cheri DiNovo will be introducing a private members bill this week proposing licensing of landlords and tightening of rent controls.  At an impromptu press conference today, Ms Di…

In a recent decision at the Ontario Superior Court, a condominium corporation was held vicariously liable for conduct of its employee, a security guard at a condominium which was managed by Del.  In the decision, JIA v. TORONTO STANDARD CONDOMINIUM…

On page 3 of this week's Saturday Sun is an article by Sun columnist Michele Mandel, who broke the story on the so-called Persian Princess about 8 months ago, renting from a landlord named Jane Randall. That story was about…

It's been a while since my last post. Too busy with too many clients. Too many victims. Too many professional tenants who are predators. I'd be lying if I didn't admit that most small landlords are the authors of their…

The Premier has betrayed both landlords and tenants with the announcement yesterday that the 2011 annual rent guideline will be just .7%.  That's the lowest percentage since the guideline was introduced, in a year that is expected to see landlords'…