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…