Tenant Services:

Question: How can a tenant in Ontario understand their legal rights and responsibilities related to residential tenancy issues and get help with a dispute with a landlord?

Answer: Defend-it Legal Services helps Ontario residential tenants understand key legal rights and duties that commonly affect tenancy disputes, including maintenance expectations, illegal rent change concerns, tenant privacy and photography issues, shared living rights, and unlawful lockout conduct, then prepares the right next steps such as reviewing the facts, negotiating a practical resolution with the landlord, and if needed preparing Landlord and Tenant Board forms and advocating at hearings.   For help with a specific issue, start with a consultation for paralegal support and tenant-focused guidance, and if you need additional investigative support the team can also assist through private investigation services like background searches and fingerprinting to support your matter, call (289) 275-3513 to get started in Ontario.

Legal Rights and Duties Affecting Residential Tenants

To a tenant, a rental dwelling is home. Of course, home means something unique to everyone and these special feelings are recognized. With this said, Defend-it Legal Services also recognizes that impartial empathy is often necessary to remain focused upon the legal issues and to remain an objective advisor and negotiator. Defend-it Legal Services helps tenants to resolve disputes by first reviewing the facts and issues and then by working to negotiate a resolution with the landlord. If resolution is evasive, Defend-it Legal Services can prepare the required Landlord Tenant Board forms and advocate at Landlord Tenant Board hearings.

Learn About Various Tenant Legal Issues