I've written already about the new mandatory standard form of lease introduced by the Ministry of Housing that requires all residential landlords (with a few exceptions) to use this lease when entering into a new tenancy with a tenant.  This…

The updated Ontario Real Estate Association ("OREA") Agreement to Lease is finally here.  It replaces the old Agreement to Lease, the Form 400 used by Realtors in Ontario for so many years.  The new document was produced in reaction to…

This is a crazy one.  I've been concerned lately about the confusion between things that happen in a rental unit, versus things that should be litigated under the Residential Tenancies Act (the "RTA") at the Landlord and Tenant Board (the…