Dryer responsibility, tenant or landlord?

[Salvatore Giancola]

Recieved below email from my tenant :

'The dryer has been acting up the last couple weeks - today it official stopped working and I can’t get it going. 

Would you be able to send someone out to look at it?'

Is it the landlord's responsibility to send someone to repair/cover expenses of repairing the dryer, or is the tenant responsible?

[Seth Ferguson]

Hi @Salvatore Giancola

If the dryer is supplied by you and is included for the use of the tenant, then you need to fix it. If the tenant brought their own dryer, then it's on the tenant.

The new Standardized Lease for Ontario has sections that are helpful in making this clear. Not sure if this tenant moved in prior to the new lease coming into effect...

Hope this helps.