My Landlord Legal Blog
I teach part-time at Humber College, a variety of legal courses to aspiring paralegals. While I am not teaching Landlord and Tenant Law this semester, students from my other classes come to me with questions because of my long history…
As a licensee of the Law Society, I have an obligation to advise and encourage a client to compromise or settle a dispute whenever it is possible to do so on a reasonable basis. I should also consider the use…
I feel like I'm always getting landlords out of trouble, protecting them from their own foolish errors. Certainly more training is needed and some landlords don't seem to have the time to take one of my courses. So to help…
If there is one factor that differentiates residential landlord and tenant law from other types of civil legal disputes in Ontario, it's that the damages are rarely if ever fixed at the time the landlord's rental claim is made. This…
It's no secret that the Residential Tenancies Act is tenant centered, but investors know that fact going into the game so my sympathy for them is limited when they whine the familiar complaint that "the law is so unfair". It's…
While I've not written about it here, the Landlord and Tenant Board has undertaken an initiative to reduce the backlog for rent applications, which was in some cases, six, seven even eight weeks from filing date to the hearing. In…
I was at the LTB today at the Yonge and St. Clair location. It was shocking. I took a few pictures. The Board so grossly over-books blocks. I understand the motivation; they want to get people to their hearings with…
I read a consumer protection column today in the Hamilton Spectator regarding deposit interest payable under the Residential Tenancies Act. Read it here:Hamilton Spectator Article on Rent DepositsThe question, asked of a Ministry official, was whether interest on the LMRD…
I was at a hearing this morning in Newmarket acting for a landlord, where the tenant had, in November of 2011, breached the terms of a mediated agreement made at the Board in October. At the hearing date back on…