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For Landlords.
Screening, bad-faith disputes, renovictions, arrears and the evidence the LTB actually acts on: the landlord’s shelf, on one page.
Field Notes for landlords
- Bad-Faith Evictions and the LTB: What an Investigation Can Prove The N12 own-use notice, how bad faith is established at a hearing, and the remedies that follow.
- How to Screen a Tenant Legally in Ontario What landlords can legally check, what the Human Rights Code prohibits, and what PIPEDA consent requires.
- Ontario RTA Changes 2026: What Bill 60 Actually Means for Landlords The 7-day N4, lighter N12 compensation, a 15-day review window, doubled fines, and when each change lands.
- Hamilton Renoviction Bylaw: A Landlord’s Guide to the N13 Renovation Licence Seven days to apply, proof the unit must be vacant, the right of return, and rent-gap compensation.
- Tenant Troubles? How Private Solutions Investigators Assist Landlords How a single problematic tenant threatens financial stability, and how documentation changes the outcome.
- Asset Searches in Ontario: What’s Findable Before Judgment, and After What is lawfully searchable, what is not, and the enforcement tools a judgment unlocks.
- How Skip Tracing Actually Works in Canada The lawful source stack, what investigators genuinely cannot touch, and why free people-search sites fail.
- Illegal Sublets and Unauthorized Occupants: Proving It at the LTB The 60-day clock, the pattern evidence that proves occupancy, and the Airbnb variant.
- Collecting on an LTB Order After the Tenant Skips Enforcement through Small Claims, why the locate comes first, and the honest collectability read.
The law that governs the work
- LTB evidence: what actually holds up at the Landlord and Tenant Board Occupancy, sublet and bad-faith disputes are decided on proof. What that proof looks like.
- PIPEDA and lawful surveillance The default rule of consent, the narrow investigative exception, and what it does not cover.
- Is it legal to hire a private investigator in Ontario? What a licensed PI can lawfully do, what nobody may do, and where the lines sit.
Services landlords use
- Landlord and Tenant Board Investigations Tenant screening, occupancy and sublet evidence, LTB hearing packages, post-judgement locates.
- Problem Tenant Investigation Documenting occupancy, sublet and bad-faith issues for an LTB hearing.
- Background Checks Employment, tenancy, personal and corporate due diligence, run inside Ontario’s consent rules.
- Locates and Skiptracing Debtors, witnesses, missing family and heirs, located through licensed channels and confirmed on the ground.
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