Your landlord wants to renovate your rental home. Now what?
The term renovation has become common parlance in recent years — referring to a situation where a tenant is evicted from a rental home for renovation purposes, and the unit is re-rented for a much higher rate thereafter.
As per Ontario’s Rental Tenancies Act (RTA), landlords have the right to renovate rental units, but must follow a prescribed process that has some built-in protections for tenants.
While the RTA does not differentiate between necessary repairs and less urgent upgrades, it does stipulate that for a tenant to be evicted for renovations, the work must be so extensive that it requires…Continue Reading