Landlord
Tenant Screening Guide for Ontario Landlords
Credit, employment, references, and the two questions that catch most problem applicants before they sign.
9 min read
Resources
The published process
Field manuals for serious rental operators
Everything we have learned from thousands of leases, 20+ markets, and institutional lease-up campaigns across North America - documented for landlords, tenants, and developers. Peace of mind, through execution you can audit.
The library
Four audiences, one discipline
For Landlords
Owner playbooks
Pricing, screening, lease drafting, and the paperwork habits that keep files out of the tribunal.
- How to Find Tenants (city-specific)
- Tenant Screening Guide
- How to Price Your Rental
- How to Avoid Bad Tenants
- Eviction Guide (with partner legal counsel)
- Landlord FAQ
For Tenants
Tenant handbooks
Everything renters need to secure a home - applications, insurance, co-signers, and a calm move-in.
- Tenant FAQ
- Tenant Insurance Guide
- Guarantor / Co-Signer Guide
- Moving Guide
- Application Walkthrough
For Developers
Institutional playbooks
Lease-up strategy for purpose-built rentals - from pre-marketing to stabilization.
- Lease-Up Playbook for New Buildings
- Institutional RFP Checklist
- Purpose-Built Rental Marketing Strategy
- Vacancy Performance Benchmarks
Market Reports
Market intelligence
Quarterly and city-level reports covering vacancy, asking rents, concessions, and absorption.
- Quarterly Ontario Rental Market Report
- Market Snapshot: Toronto
- Market Snapshot: Mississauga
- Market Snapshot: Ottawa
- Market Snapshot: Vancouver
- Market Snapshot: Miami
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Featured guides
The published process - documented so you can see exactly what serious leasing execution looks like before you hire anyone.
Landlord
How to Price Your Rental in 2026
A framework that balances CMHC benchmarks, live comps, and concession realities so a unit leases in under three weeks.
7 min read
Landlord
Rent Guarantee 101: What It Covers
How rent guarantee products work, what they do and do not cover, and when they are worth the premium.
5 min read
Institutional
Lease-Up Playbook: The First 30 Days
Pre-marketing, leasing-office staffing, incentive calibration, and the reporting cadence stabilization demands.
10 min read
Landlord
How to Avoid Bad Tenants: The 12-Point Checklist
The twelve disqualifying patterns we flag during screening, and how to verify each without tripping human-rights legislation.
8 min read
Institutional
Institutional RFP Template for Purpose-Built Rentals
A copy-and-edit RFP scope covering marketing, leasing, and handover - the document developers keep asking us for.
6 min read
Tenant
Tenant Insurance Requirements by Province
What most leases require, what insurers actually pay out, and the coverage figures worth negotiating.
6 min read
Tenant
Moving Day Coordination Guide (Tenant Edition)
Booking elevators, utilities, insurance, and the inspection walkthrough - the timeline we share with every new tenant.
5 min read
For Landlords
Owner library
The operational documents we hand our own files - pricing frameworks, screening SOPs, and the paperwork habits that keep an owner out of the tribunal.
For Tenants
Tenant library
Practical guides for renters - what a strong application looks like, how guarantors work, what tenant insurance actually covers, and how to plan a calm move-in.
For Developers
Institutional library
Lease-up playbooks, RFP templates, and marketing strategies for purpose-built rental developers and asset managers stabilizing new inventory.
Market Reports
Market reports
Quarterly province-level reports and city-level snapshots covering vacancy, asking rents, concessions, and absorption - with sources cited.
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Put the library into context
Locations
Every market we lease in, with local data
Toronto, Mississauga, Ottawa, Vancouver, Miami, and the twenty other cities where our brokerage is licensed to execute - each with local vacancy, rent, and concession benchmarks.
Services
The leasing services these guides support
Tenant placement, screening, lease drafting, showing coordination, and full institutional lease-up - each service is the executed version of the guide it maps to.
Frequently asked
About the resources hub
- Are these guides free?
- Yes. Every guide, checklist, and market report on this site is free to read. No paywall, no email gate on the content itself, no lead-form gymnastics. We publish our documented process because transparency is the differentiator.
- How often are the guides updated?
- Legal guides are reviewed whenever the governing statute or tribunal rule changes. Market reports refresh each quarter. Evergreen operational guides (pricing, screening, moving) get a full audit once a year, with in-line corrections any time a reader flags a stale detail.
- Can I republish or cite these guides?
- Short excerpts with attribution and a link back to the original page are fine. For longer reproductions, reach out and we will confirm in writing - our only requirement is that the attribution remains visible and the text stays unedited.
- Do you produce custom guides for institutional clients?
- Yes. For developers and asset managers, we prepare tailored lease-up playbooks, RFP responses, and concession-strategy memos specific to the asset. That work is part of an engagement - the public guides here reflect the documented process behind it.
- Who writes these guides?
- Our leasing team writes the operational content. Legal guides are reviewed by outside counsel before publication. Market reports are compiled from CMHC, Statistics Canada, MLS data, and our own leasing file - with sources cited in every report.
- How do I request a guide on a topic that is not covered?
- Email the team or use the contact form. If a question comes in more than a handful of times, it becomes a guide. Several of the pages linked above started exactly that way.
Ready to put these resources into practice
The guides document the process. Our leasing team runs it on your file - zero upfront, success-fee only.