Posts Tagged ‘late rent’

Thursday, April 29th, 2021

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 tenants to share their opinions on how we can make these improvements.

Most of us used to rent to and we have tried to become the landlords we always wanted to rent from but could never find.

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 in a win-win business relationship.

To contribute your experiences and advice please email us at:  tenantexperiences@groupmail.com (All contributions must be a minimum of 300 words and include your name, contact number, address, a copy of your lease, all which will all be kept private and destroyed upon confirmation.)

The post below has been recommended by the Tenant Community as extremely helpful and important information. 

By Working Together Tenants And Small Landlords Can Get A Better Understanding of the Issues And Improve The Ontario Rental Industry.

Let’s all face issues straight on and work to make the Ontario Rental Industry not only an example for Canada, but for the world!

 

Ontario Landlords Association Partnership With The Toronto Rent Bank To Help Good Tenants And Great Landlords In 2020

Wednesday, August 19th, 2020

Ontario Landlords Association Is All About Helping Good Landlords, Good Tenants & Improving The Ontario Rental Industry

– Spread The News About This Helpful Program For Tenants and Landlords

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My tenant hasn’t paid the rent on the 1st? What do experienced landlords do?

Wednesday, November 30th, 2011

December 1st, 2011

 

It’s the nearing the first of the month.  You have a regular system with your tenant where you call them the day before and prepare a time to pick up the rent at the rental property.

For months, things worked well.   You always meet at the rental property.  Sometimes you set a time for 5 pm.  Sometimes you set a time for 6 pm.  One time you and your tenant were both running late so you set a time to meet at the front door at 7:45 pm!  It’s all good.

This time you call to set up a time to pick up rent and no one answers.

You think “I can’t reach my tenant to set up a time to pick up rent, it’s shouldn’t be a big problem.”

Or is it.  

You call a couple more times and no answer.  You leave a couple voice-mail messages requesting a call back.  

Nothing!

The First of the month comes.  No contact, no replies, no nothing…and no rent!

No rent and you still have to pay your mortgage.  You decide to go visit the property.  You knock on the door, ring the doorbell…no one answers.  You try back a few days later.  You think you see a light on, but still…no one answers.

You read the Ontario Landlord and Tenant Board Website and see you can serve a form called an N-4 for non-payment of rent.

Should you fill it out and serve it?  You begin to remember how good your tenant has been for the past six months.  Is this a one off situation? You also begin to read the form N-4 and does it ever look serious and confrontational.  The form N-4 looks to want to create a fight!

You don’t want to fight.  You just want your rent.

So what should you do?  

Experienced landlords discuss this in a great thread at the Ontario Landlords Association advice forums HERE

What would you do?