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My roommate and I have been living in our current apartment since Jan 1, 2025. We signed a 1 year lease. We are now on a month-to-month. My roommate and I have had no issues together.

I may have to move out soon due to family matters. My roommate wants to stay in this apartment. What are the steps for finding a new replacement and how does the leasing contract work... Will they have to sign a new contract? I paid the last month's deposit, do I just forfeit that?

My girlfriend and her friends (her best friend and said friends husband) rented a place and signed a one year lease that will be up at the end of June. Her friend is moving out but my girlfriend wants to remain and I was going to move in with her.

Are we required to sign a new lease with my name on it? Or does it go month to month and I can just move in as an occupant?

Originally the landlord asked us to sign a new lease and we agreed but she didn't get back to us and suddenly sent an email to the tenants asking them to sign an N11 so that she can begin marketing for new renters. I basically just want to know what my girlfriends rights are and if she has to leave. Thanks in advance for any advice.

Just looking for some general advice here. I just started renting a condo in Toronto and have only been in the unit about 2 months. Since living there I have already had a handful of issues including smoke detectors, landlords being unresponsive, HVAC not working, etc. The building is marketed as a “luxury” condo and is only a few years old so I was not expecting to have so many problems so quickly and unfortunately majority of the repair/maintenance responsibilities fall on the owner (LL) of each unit and not the building management. For context, the owners are a married couple and I was told the husband is a trades worker.

Most recently was the HVAC, I had tried to turn on the AC (included in my rent) and discovered it was not working. Since letting the landlord know immediately about a week ago, my landlord and a “technician” who I believe to be a friend of his have spent approximately 12 hours across 4 separate visits in my unit attempting to repair it. This has been incredibly disruptive as I work from home most of the time, and I have been getting increasingly frustrated as I believe they could have just hired an HVAC company to have the problem diagnosed on the first visit and resolved very quickly. As disruptive as this has been I prefer to be home while they are in the unit as the idea of them being in my space when I’m not there, especially as a woman, makes me uncomfortable.

During the last visit I was working in my office and heard a clanging noise and looked up to see the technician using a cast iron pan that I had left out from breakfast that morning. I got up to see what was going on and he had put it back on the stovetop, stating that he needed to use it for water. I was immediately annoyed because a) cast iron pans really shouldn’t be submerged in water and b) I was sitting right there and he didn’t ask if he could use my personal property, but I was busy and just returned to what I was doing. This was not the first time I had witnessed them being careless with my stuff: they were standing on my barstools to access vents and hanging things off of my TV mount, all without asking.

They leave again that day with the unit still not being fixed. Later that night as I was using the stovetop to cook dinner, I heard a cracking noise and discovered the glass stovetop had a large crack in it running all across the bottom. I immediately turned the stove off and took photo/video for my landlord. I then went to the sink to clean the dishes and discovered that when I went to drain the sink that had been plugged, the plumbing below was leaking a ton of water (only when draining, not while running water normally). I immediately took photo/video again and started cleaning up with towels to try to prevent damage to the cupboards. I sent my landlord all of the photo/video from the stove and the sink and explained that I was feeling very stressed due to the amount of issues I had experienced in such a short time. I made sure to mention that the technician had also been using a very heavy pan on my stovetop, which may not have been smart since they seem to know him personally, but I was trying to think of any reason this would possibly have happened when I’ve been using it with no issues for two months. All power was turned off for the stovetop and I have not used the kitchen sink since, despite there not being an active leak.

My landlord responded and was apologetic about the issues and about the AC still not being fixed. She requested that they come look at the kitchen today to inspect the damage, to which I responded I had to go into the office but they were welcome to come when I got home that afternoon. She requested permission to come while I wasn’t home, to which I responded I would be more comfortable if they came while I was there (I considered letting them go briefly but given the circumstances I felt uncomfortable with it - if I hadn’t been home yesterday I wouldn’t have even known that the technician was touching my pan/stovetop).

I am still at work now and my landlord just emailed me a “friendly reminder” with maintenance tips for all of the appliances in the unit. I understand the sentiment but I am getting nervous that they are going to try to blame any of these issues on me, and if that’s the case I’m not sure what to do, as I can’t prove the technician actually did anything to the stovetop.

I am also curious about the timelines for repairs. It has now been 10 days since I reported the AC was not working; the weather is not quite hot enough yet for it to be an issue but it will be soon. At what point is it unreasonable for them to keep bringing the same person over who doesn’t seem to be able to fix the problem? And given how long this has taken I am expecting the stovetop to not be repaired quickly, but at what point do I have recourse to be able to file against them if it becomes an issue? I am really stressed about this, I have never had an issue with a landlord before and I don’t want to cause a bad relationship but I feel they are trying to cut corners and I pay a lot of money to live here.

Any advice would be appreciated. Thank you!