Does your company offer a high-quality product or service that can help landlords (big and small) succeed in running their rental businesses? These are difficult times for many landlords. From facing fast rising mortgage rates, the costs of maintaining your rental unit, to facing some renters who manipulate the system, the list goes on and on in 2024. We invite you to help good landlords to succeed and improve the rental industry by becoming a valued partner. Let us know about your product or service and we can help you reach a huge audience Canada-wide. Contact us at: landlordhelper@proton.m ..read more

MEMORANDUM TO:                 Landlord and Tenant Board Stakeholders FROM:           Ian Speers, Associate Chair                        Lindiwe Bridgewater, Acting Registrar DATE:            December 1, 2023 RE:                 Landlord and Tenant Board Stakeholder Meeting Please join us on Wednes ..read more

TENANTS: What Is The Truth About Landlords Reporting Tenants To Credit Bureaus? Does It Really Have A Big Impact? No! I was threatened by landlord that he could “ruin” my credit score or he could “save” me from “living on the cold hard street” by him personally raising my credit score. I was very upset. Not only because I have two young children so the threat of “living on the cold hard street” liberally meant we might FREEZE TO DEATH if we didn’t obey our lord and so-called master. THREATS, THREATS AND MORE THREATS FROM SMALL LANDLORDS For sure some landlords are using this as ..read more

The most experienced and successful landlords in our community association know that tenants want to live in safe properties. No one should live in dangerous conditions and our members agree. Most of our members used to rent and know finding a safe property who makes ‘house safety’ a priority is very important. This is why the latest news being discussed on our forums have many of our members unhappy and why we need to push hard to get landlords trained. Wasaga Landlord Charged With Failing To Maintain Smoke Alarms According to a report in Wasaga Sun via Simcoe news the owner a multi-unit ren ..read more

With vacancy rates so low and so many people seeking a home we need protections.  The biggest story these days is how a crazy small landlord shot his tenants due to to mold issues. All we want is a safe and affordable home owned by a professional landlord who understands the Residential Tenancies Act and follows the Landlord and Tenant Board rules. While landlords want credit and criminal checks, Tenants are just trying of find a safe and affordable home. A Way For Tenants To Find The Best Landlords Even landlords on the ontariolandlords forum agree that Tenants need a way to find them ..read more

With a one time registration fee (only to cover our costs) you get access to credit checks for as low as $10 with the leading background screening companies in Canada. We have kept this price since 2009 to help landlords pay the lowest price for the best services to help you succeed! With so many “for profit” start ups charging up to $29.99/check you save $20/check. …so after only 5 credit checks with us you are making money thanks to our huge savings for you. Many of our members have conducted hundreds of credit checks and the huge savings is like “making money”. Even making thousands of dol ..read more

 MEMORANDUM TO:                 Landlord and Tenant Board Stakeholders FROM:           Ian Speers, Associate Chair                          Lindiwe Bridgewater, Acting Registrar DATE:            July 2023 RE:                  LTB Updates We are writing to inform you about LTB updates ..read more

In the summer of 2022 we launched our “Beat The Heat” campaign. Many in our community association used to be renters before and were upset when they saw that some corporate landlords tried to evict long term tenants just because they wanted to keep the air conditioners to create a comfortable living environment. With climate change and rising temperatures our community disagreed with what these corporations were doing. In fact, many in our community association used to be renters and were furious! This was just not fair and just not right. And also bad business practices. The System Is Improv ..read more

Tenants Speak Out & Share Their Concerns & Opinions on the Rental Industry As part of our “Let’s Improve the Ontario Rental Industry” we have invited our tenant members to share their opinions on how we can make these improvements. These opinions are from individual contributors and are not the opinions of the Ontario Landlords Association. We believe by fostering communication between landlords and tenants we can improve the Ontario rental industry.   ..read more

I’m a Tenant who wants to make my voice heard for fairness for both Tenants and landlords. By communicating our concerns to each other I hope to help improve the Ontario rental industry. Thank you for this very fair platform to “make things better” in these trying times. I think all good landlords will agree that this situation is unfair and help us fix this “loop hole”. The news was shocking!  Landlords can now “step aside” the Landlord and Tenant Board. And it’s so easy! This is right out of the show Black Mirror! It’s like you can use some “drivers ap” to drive and you can speed and e ..read more