A Thunder Bay landlord was ordered to pay a tenant $2,300 in compensation after terminating their lease under Ontario's 'no fault' eviction provisions. The landlord intended to occupy the basement unit herself but instead rented it to family members.
Landlord s who terminate tenancies under 'no fault' provisions of Ontario legislation must take care to ensure they adhere strictly to those provisions, and that they complete the paperwork properly. Otherwise, as a Thunder Bay homeowner learned this year, they could find themselves having to pay compensation. She was exercising her legal rights when she asked a tenant to leave so she could occupy her home's basement apartment herself.
Because it was actually two of her family members who moved into the unit, the landlord ended up having to compensate the tenant to the tune of about $2,300, but this was well short of the $15,000 – the maximum permitted – the tenant was seeking. Details of the ruling in the case by the province's Landlord and Tenant Board were just recently made public. Under Ontario law, one of the situations where a no fault termination of tenancy is allowed is when landlords require the apartment because they, a member of their immediate family, or their caregiver wishes to move into the unit. In the case of a basement apartment in Westfort, in September 2022 the owner of the property handed a tenant an N12 Notice of Termination indicating she intended to occupy it herself as of December 1. The landlord was already living upstairs on the main floor. When the tenant moved out in November, and learned the landlord's sister and nephew were taking over the unit, she applied to the Landlord and Tenant Board for $15,000 in general damages. Both parties attended the subsequent hearing. The landlord did not deny that two family members had moved into the apartment, but said she had misunderstood the N12 form, did not serve it in bad faith, and simply made a mistake. She testified her relationship with the tenant had always been good, and that she took steps to help the tenant find another place to stay, including providing a letter of reference that noted her sister and nephew were taking over the tenant's unit
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