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Ontario Lease Agreement - New For 2018


How to Fill Out The Ontario Lease Agreement. Video Tutorial and Instructions, Easy Simple Explanation. Need Help With Your Ontario Lease Agreement? Call Sutton Rental Department at 416-896-3333 Serving Toronto, Etobicoke, Mississauga, Oakville, Brampton, Georgetown, Milton.


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Form Classification
Classification / Identification:
  Form Number: 047-2229E Edition date:  2018/01 
  Title: Residential Tenancy Agreement (Standard Form of Lease)
  Ministry: Municipal Affairs and Housing    
  Branch/ABC: Market Housing Branch    
  Program: Residential Tenancies Unit    
  Purpose of Form: This form is a residential tenancy agreement (lease). Starting April 30, 2018 landlords of most private market rental units will be required to use this form (lease) when they enter into a tenancy with a tenant.    

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Starting April 30, 2018, landlords of most private residential rental units – from individual landlords to property management companies – must use the standard lease template for all new leases.

Landlord and tenant rights and responsibilities remain the same under the Residential Tenancies Act, 2006 (RTA).

Get the standard lease.

Download the guide to the standard lease.

Purpose of the standard lease

The standard lease uses easy-to-understand language to help:

  • landlords and renters understand their rights and responsibilities
  • reduce illegal terms in leases and misunderstandings caused by verbal tenancy agreements
  • reduce the need for Landlord and Tenant Board hearings to resolve disputes
     

Who must use the standard lease?

The standard lease will apply to most residential tenancies in Ontario, including:

  • single and semi-detached houses
  • apartment buildings
  • condominiums
  • secondary units (for example, basement apartments)

A standard lease is not required for tenancies that have special rules or partial exemptions under the RTA, including:

  • care homes (for example, retirement homes)
  • mobile home parks and land lease communities
  • social and supportive housing exempt from the rent rules under the RTA (for example, housing subject to operating agreements under certain programs or where the tenant receives publically funded rent-geared-to-income assistance)

Other forms of housing accommodation that are exempt from the RTA, such as member units in co-operative housing and transitional housing programs that meet certain requirements, are similarly exempt from the standard lease.

What is in a standard lease?
 

The standard lease form contains:

1. Mandatory fields that must be completed and cannot be altered or removed.

These fields include basic information that is included in every lease, including:

  • the names of the landlord and renter
  • the tenancy term, rent amount and services included
  • other terms which landlords and renters can agree to, such as rent deposits, key deposits, smoking rules, and renter's insurance

2. Optional additional terms, which allow landlords and renters to agree to terms or responsibilities that are unique to the rental unit.

Additional terms not consistent with a mandatory term of the lease or the RTA, are considered void and unenforceable.

3. General information for landlords and renters on rights, responsibilities and void/unenforceable conditions, including:

  • ending a tenancy
  • subletting
  • illegal charges
  • pets
  • guests
  • landlord entry

Information for landlords and renters
 

If you sign a lease on or after April 30, 2018, it must be a standard lease.

If you sign a lease on or after April 30, 2018 that does not use the standard lease, renters can ask the landlord for one in writing. The landlord must provide one within 21 days.

Renters cannot ask for a standard lease if they signed a lease before April 30, 2018, unless they and their landlord negotiate a new lease agreement with new terms on or after this date.

Additionally, renters cannot ask for a standard lease if they sign a fixed-term lease before April 30, 2018, and it renewed automatically to a month-to-month tenancy after April 30, 2018.

If a landlord fails to provide the standard lease within 21 days after a renter has asked for it in writing, the renter may withhold one month's rent.

If the landlord fails to provide the standard lease within 30 days after the renter has begun withholding rent, the renter does not have to repay the one month's rent. Please note, you cannot withhold more than one month’s rent and you must continue paying your rent for the term of your lease, even if your landlord never gives you the standard lease. However, if a standard lease is not provided, special rules allow you to end your fixed-term lease early.

Ending a tenancy early

If the landlord does not provide the standard lease within 21 days after the renter has made a written request, the renter may give 60 days' notice to terminate a yearly or fixed-term tenancy early.

If the landlord provides a renter with the standard lease after the renter has asked for it, but the renter does not agree to the proposed terms (for example, a new term is added), the renter may give the landlord 60 days' notice to terminate a yearly or fixed-term tenancy early.

To terminate a tenancy early in this case, the renter must give the 60 days' notice no later than 30 days after the landlord provided the standard lease.

In both cases, the effective date for termination must be the last day of a rental period (for example, the end of a month).

Where to get help
 

Contact your Sutton Realty Representative at 416-896-3333 or the Landlord and Tenant Board by calling 1-888-332-3234 to learn more about your rights and responsibilities under the RTA.

 

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Suggested Lease Clauses


 

Suggested Lease Clauses Covering The New Cannabis Legalization

Tenants and any occupants of the premises and including without limitation, any visitors, guests and business invitees shall not sell, distribute, cultivate, propagate or harvest any cannabis or cannabis plants without the meaning of the Cannabis Act, SC 2018, c16 and the Cannabis Act, SO 2017, c26, as amended from time to time, anywhere in or upon the premises rented by the Tenant, the building where Tenant's premises are located or in any of the common areas or adjoining grounds of such building Contravention of this provision shall be deemed to be material breach of the lease and grounds for termination of the lease.

Tenant and any occupants of the premises and, including without limitation, any visitors, guests and business invitees shall not smoke anywhere in or upon the premises rented by the Tenant, the building where Tenant's premises are located or in any of the common areas or adjoining grounds of such building.

For purposes of this provision, the terms "smoke" means to inhale, exhale, burn or have control over a lighted cigarette, lighted cannabis cigarette, cigar, pipe, hookah pipe or other lighted smoking implement designed to burn tobacco or any other substance, including without limitation, cannabis as defined in the Cannabis Act, SC 2018, c16 as amended from time to time for the purpose of inhaling or tasting of its emission.  Contravention of this provision shall be deemed to be a material breach of the lease and grounds for termination of the lease.