Your home. Your rights.
Quick Answer
A licensed paralegal can represent a tenant at the Ontario Landlord and Tenant Board — answering an eviction application, filing a T2 for landlord harassment, a T6 for repairs, or a T5 for a bad-faith eviction. A notice on your door is not an eviction; only the Board can order one, and only the sheriff can carry it out.
A notice on your door is not an eviction, and a demand to leave is not the law. Many notices are defective, premature, or simply unenforceable — and many tenant claims, from disrepair to an illegal increase, put money back in your pocket. We tell you where you actually stand and what the Board can do about it.
A notice is the start of a process, not the end of your tenancy.
The most expensive mistake a tenant makes is assuming a notice means they have to leave. Only the Landlord and Tenant Board can order an eviction, and only the sheriff can carry one out — after a hearing where you have the right to be heard. Just as often, the tenant is the one owed money: for repairs ignored, services withheld, or an increase that was never legal. Knowing which deadline matters is the whole game.
Applications we bring for tenants
4 matters- Form T2
Tenant Rights (T2)
Holding a landlord to account for illegal entry, harassment, withholding vital services, changing the locks, or substantially interfering with your reasonable enjoyment of your home.
Read the overview - Form T6
Maintenance & Repairs (T6)
Forcing a landlord to meet their repair obligations — pests, mould, broken heating, leaks, and disrepair — and recovering an abatement for the time you lived with it.
Read the overview - Form T5
Bad-Faith Eviction (T5)
Compensation when a landlord moved you out on an N12 or N13 — claiming own use, sale, or renovation — that turned out not to be genuine.
Read the overview - Form T1
Illegal Rent Increase
Recovering rent you overpaid when a landlord raised the rent above the guideline, too soon, or without proper notice.
Read the overview
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Read the notice
Many eviction notices are defective or premature. Before anything else, we check whether the notice is even valid and what deadline it really sets.
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Build the record
Whether you're answering an eviction or bringing a T2 or T6, the evidence — photos, messages, dates — is what the Board acts on. We assemble it.
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File or respond
We file your application within its limitation period, or prepare your response and disclosure to a landlord's application before the hearing.
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Argue it at the hearing
We appear with you, or for you, at the virtual hearing — testing the landlord's case and asking for the remedy or outcome you're entitled to.
Can I be evicted without notice in Ontario?
- No. A landlord must serve a proper written notice on the correct form, wait out the required period, and then get an order from the Landlord and Tenant Board. Only the sheriff can carry out an eviction. If anyone tells you to leave immediately or changes your locks, that is unlawful.
What can I do if my landlord won't make repairs?
- Put your requests in writing, then file a T6 application. The Board can order the landlord to do the repairs and award you a rent abatement — money back — for the period you lived with the problem. Withholding rent on your own is risky and can lead to an eviction application against you.
My landlord is evicting me to move family in — is that allowed?
- An N12 for the landlord's or a purchaser's own use is allowed, but it requires 60 days' notice, one month's compensation, and a genuine intention to occupy for at least a year. If the unit is instead re-rented after you leave, you may be able to claim significant compensation through a T5 bad-faith application.
Does it cost anything to talk to a paralegal as a tenant?
- The first consultation at Point Duty is free, confidential, and without obligation. Many tenant matters — like a maintenance abatement or a bad-faith eviction claim — can recover money, so representation is often worth far more than it costs.
Point Duty represents tenants across Ontario, with regular LTB appearances for matters from Toronto, Mississauga, Brampton, Hamilton, Burlington, and beyond.
Don’t move out yet.
Before you pack, let us read the notice. It may be defective, early, or worth fighting — and you may be the one owed money. The first call is free, confidential, and without obligation.