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Landlord And Tenant Board

The Landlord and Tenant Board is an adjudicative tribunal operating in the province of Ontario that provides dispute resolution of landlord and tenant matters under the Residential Tenancies Act, 2006. It is one of the 13 adjudicative tribunals overseen by the Ministry of the Attorney General that make up Tribunals Ontario.

Landlords and tenants in Ontario must use certain forms in order to communicate with one another. Otherwise their application to the board might be dismissed. These forms are from N1 to N15.

Landlord Tenant Board is governed by the Rules of Procedures, Practice Direction and guidelines and Statutory Powers Procedure Act.

There also regulations which provide details about how a part of the act is applied or interpreted.

If a landlord chooses to apply to the board seeking a resolution for a matter he/she will submit L1-L10.
If a tenant chooses to apply to the board for a decision, he/she will submit T1-T7

All N Notices Landlord applications Tenant applications Landlord and Tenant’s applications (A forms)Motions

Notice of Rent Increase

Notice of Rent Increase (Unit Partially Exempt)

Notice to Increase the Rent and/or Charges for Care Services and Meals

Notice to End a Tenancy Early for Non-payment of Rent

Notice to End Tenancy For Interfering with Others, Damage or Overcrowding

Notice to End Tenancy For Illegal Acts or Misrepresenting Income in a Rent-Geared-to-Income Rental Unit

Notice to End Tenancy For Causing Serious Problems in the Rental Unit or Residential Complex

Notice to End Tenancy at the End of the Term

Tenants Notice To End The Tenancy

N10

Agreement to Increase the Rent Above the Guideline

N11

Agreement to End the Tenancy

N12

Notice to End Tenancy Because the Landlord, a Purchaser or a Family Member Requires the Rental Unit

N13

Notice to End Tenancy Because the Landlord Wants to Demolish the Rental Unit, Repair it or Convert it to Another Use

N14

Landlord’s Notice to the Spouse of the Tenant who Vacated the Rental Unit

N15

Tenant’s Notice to End my Tenancy Because of Fear of Sexual or Domestic Violence and Abuse

Application to evict a tenant for non-payment of rent and to collect rent the tenant owes

This form is used to apply for an order to end a tenancy and evict a tenant after landlord gives the tenant an N4 Notice to End Your Tenancy for Non-payment of Rent.

Application to End a Tenancy and Evict a Tenant or Collect Money This form is used to:

End a tenancy and evict a tenant after landlord gives the tenant one of the following Notices to End Tenancy: N5, N6, N7, N8, N12 or N13,
End a tenancy and evict a tenant because the tenant abandoned the rental unit, or because the tenant is a superintendent whose employment ended,
Collect money landlord believes the tenant owes for:
remaining in the rental unit after the termination date,
NSF cheques the tenant gave you,
Damaging the rental unit,
Unpaid utility bills,
Costs that landlord incurred because the tenant or someone else visiting or living in the rental unit substantially interfered with landlord reasonable enjoyment or lawful right, privilege, or interest,
Misrepresenting income in social housing.

Application to End a Tenancy and Evict a Tenant because Tenant Gave Notice or Agreed to End the Tenancy

This form is used to apply for an order to end a tenancy and evict a tenant if the tenant gave landlord a notice to end tenancy or landlord and tenant agreed to terminate the tenancy.

Landlord’s Application to End a Tenancy and Evict a Tenant failed to Meet Conditions of a Settlement or Order

Landlord can apply to end the tenancy and evict the tenant using Form L4 if:

The tenant has not met the conditions in an order or mediated settlement, and
The order or mediated settlement allows landlord to file this application.

File all pages of the application with the LTB no later than 30 days after the tenant failed to meet a condition of the mediated settlement or order.
Must also file the following documents with your application:

A copy of the mediated settlement or order,
A signed declaration or sworn affidavit that sets out which conditions the tenant did not meet and in what way the tenant did not meet these conditions.

Application for a Rent Increase Above the Guideline

This form can be used to apply to have the Landlord and Tenant Board (LTB) issue an order allowing a rent increase of more than the guideline for any or all of the rental units in the residential complex.

Application for Review of a Work Order about Provincial Maintenance Standards

This form is used to apply to have the Landlord and Tenant Board (LTB) review a municipal work order if the work order is about enforcing the province’s maintenance standards.

Note: This form can not be used to request a review of any other type of work order (for example, a municipal work order which is enforcing the municipality’s property standards by-laws).

Copy of the application along with the notice of hearing shall be given to municipality.

Application to Transfer a Care Home Tenant

This form is used to apply to the Landlord and Tenant Board to transfer a tenant from a care home because the tenant requires:

Less care than the care home provides, or
More care than the care home provides.

Landlord’s Application Because the Tenant Changed the Locks

This form is used to apply to the Board because tenant changed the locks to the rental unit and/or the residential complex without landlord’s permission and landlord wants the tenant to:

Give him/her a key to the new locking system, or
Pay costs to change the locking system.

Application to Collect the rent Tenant Owes

This form is used to apply for an order to collect rent the tenant owes. If landlord also wants to terminate the tenancy and evict the tenant for non-payment of rent, Form L1 instead must be used.

L10

This application is used when tenant has already moved out of the rental unit and landlord wants to apply for an order to:

Collect rent arrears and/or compensation that landlord believes the former tenant owes,
Collect an amount for charges related to NSF cheques the former tenant gave landlord,
Collect costs landlord believe the former tenant owes for unpaid utility bills,
Collect money landlord believes the former tenant owes for damaging the rental unit,
Collect costs that landlord incurred because the former tenant or someone else visiting or living in the rental unit substantially interfered with landlord’s reasonable enjoyment or lawful right, privilege, or interest. Application must be filed no later than one year after the former tenant moved out of the rental unit.

Tenant Application for a Rebate

This form is used to apply to the Board to determine whether landlord collected money from tenant that they should not have collected or failed to pay tenant money they owe.

Application about Tenant Rights

This form is used to apply to the Board to determine whether landlord, the landlord’s agent or the superintendent

Entered rental unit illegally
Changed the locks to the rental unit or building without giving tenant replacement keys, substantially interfered with tenant reasonable enjoyment of the rental unit or complex or with the reasonable enjoyment of a member of tenant’s household.
Harassed, coerced, obstructed, threatened or interfered with tenant, withheld or interfered with vital services, care services or meals.

This form can also be used to have the Board determine whether landlord:
Did not give tenant 72 hours to remove property from the rental unit or from somewhere close to it after the Sheriff evicted tenant,
Did not give tenant a written tenancy agreement for the care home unit or gave an agreement that did not include information about the care services and meals and/or the charges tenant agreed to.

Tenant Application for a Rent Reduction

This form is used to apply to have the Board determine whether tenant’s rent should be reduced because:

Landlord has reduced a service or facility that was previously provided to the unit or to the residential complex, or has stopped providing it (it was discontinued),
The municipal taxes and charges for the residential complex tenant lives in have decreased.

Tenant Application – Landlord did not Comply with an Agreement to Increase the Rent Above the Guideline

This form is used to apply to the Board if tenant and landlord signed an N10 Agreement to Increase the Rent Above the Guideline Form and tenant wants the portion of the rent increase that was above the guideline returned to you because landlord broke all or part of the agreement. The agreement required the landlord to:
- Do major repairs or renovations to the rental unit,
- Buy new equipment for the rental unit, or
- Add a new service to your tenancy. You must apply within two years of the date the rent increase took effect.

Landlord gave a Notice of Termination in Bad Faith

This form is used to apply to the LTB if a former tenant who moved out of a rental unit because the landlord gave you either of the following notices to end tenancy, and tenant believes the landlord gave the notice in bad faith:
N12 Notice to End your Tenancy Because the Landlord, a Purchaser or a Family Member Requires the Rental Unit,
N13 Notice to End your Tenancy Because the Landlord Wants to Demolish the Rental Unit, Repair it or Convert it to Another Use

Tenant Application about Maintenance

This form is used to apply to have the Board determine whether landlord:

Has not repaired or maintained the rental unit or the residential complex, or
Has not complied with health, safety, housing or maintenance standards.

Tenant Application about Suite Meters

This form is used to apply to have the Board determine whether landlord:
Did not follow the rules under the Residential Tenancies Act, 2006 (the RTA) before they terminated their obligation to provide electricity to the rental unit and required tenant to start paying his/her own electricity costs.
Did not follow all the required rules under the RTA before requiring tenant to pay a portion of the utility costs for the rental unit.

Application about Whether the Act Applies

– This application is used to have the Board determine whether all or part of the Residential Tenancies Act, 2006 (the RTA) applies to the rental unit or residential complex

Application about a Sublet or an Assignment

This application is used because of issues related to assigning or subletting the rental unit.

Application to Vary the Amount of a Rent Reduction

This application is used to apply to the Board to vary the amount of a rent reduction set out in a Notice of Rent Reduction issued by the municipality.

Tenant’s Motion to Void an Eviction Order for Arrears of Rent

A Motion to Void is a form tenant can fill out to ask the Landlord and Tenant Board (the “Board”) to void or stop an eviction order because tenant has paid all the money that owes.