Tenant Advocacy: Services for Landlord-Tenant Board Matters

Question: What are my basic rights and duties as a residential tenant in Ontario?

Answer: In Ontario, residential tenants generally must pay rent on time and avoid damaging the unit, while landlords must maintain the property and follow the proper notice and Landlord and Tenant Board process for entries, rent changes, and evictions under Residential Tenancies Act, 2006, S.O. 2006, c. 17.  For non-legal support in the Legal Profession Ecosystem serving Ontario, Success.Legal™ can help you organize facts and documents, understand common tenant dispute workflows, and get connected to appropriate licensed legal help when needed.

Legal Rights and Duties Affecting Residential Tenants

Your home is where your heart is and where your most special memories are made. Of course, home always means something uniquely special to everyone. Success.Legal™ recognizes the importance of your home while also appreciating that a legal services provider must maintain impartial empathy and remain focused as an objective advisor and negotiator. Success.Legal™ helps tenants to resolve disputes by first reviewing the facts and issues and then by working to negotiate a resolution with the landlord. If resolution is evasive, Success.Legal™ can prepare the required Landlord Tenant Board forms and advocate at Landlord Tenant Board hearings.