Eviction laws Ontario Canada

[David Leesurier]

Hi everyone and happy Easter :) I am in need of finding out the proper procedures to rent out a house as a cottage/ vacation property. I currently have a cottage for rent on trip advisor renting it by the day or week etc and I have someone there now (from trip advisor) that has asked to stay for a month or year if possible. I do know that tenant laws do not apply to vacation properties. If I do credit checks and references etc can I have him sign as vacation rental, this way eviction won't be s problem if needed ? Does anyone know more details on the topic Thanks Dave

[Matt Geerts]

@David Leesurier

If it smells like a lease, the LTB will skewer you and you'll be fighting an uphill battle for "trying to make it not look like a lease and fooling the poor, oppressed renter".

You need to specifically find the definition of a property that is ruled by LTB and you need to specifically avoid fitting into that criteria. Else, you're under their thumb and you are offered no "out" no matter what it says in your lease.

[Matt Geerts]

Well, I take that back. Section 5.a

So yeah, make it REALLY clear that this is a vacation home. Then again, I might have missed some specific definition of a vacation home that exempts year-long contracts.

Be very careful about this, however. It would not surprise me to find that your vacation cottage 1-year rental suddenly becomes someone else' AirBnB income stream.

[Matt Geerts]

I take back my take back!!

Check out these shenanigans!

By the way, that's Ontario Canada, not Ontario California, in case the "Ont, CA" was confusing.

Source: http://www.isthatlegal.ca/index.php?name=special_exempt.tenant_law_ontario 

[David Leesurier]

thanks Matt, I am going to rent it out for 1 month only. As I have other renters booked in for a week in the following months of May, June and July 

I'll keep you posted if I find any legal documents pertaining to vacation rentals that may help others out there