About this site

Rent Guideline is written by one person: I'm Sergio, the editor. I'm not a lawyer, I hold no Canadian legal qualification and I write from outside Canada, which is exactly why every figure here sits next to the official source it was read in.

Why the source sits beside every figure

You shouldn't have to take my word for a number that decides what you pay. With the source and the day it was checked in front of you, you can open the province's own page and confirm it in a minute. If it doesn't match, I want to hear about it.

Rent figures also go stale quickly. Ontario and British Columbia set a new limit for each calendar year. Forms get new versions. Deadlines move: in Ontario, the time to ask the Landlord and Tenant Board to review an order was shortened to 15 days on July 1, 2026. A page that copied its numbers from another page a year ago can be wrong without anyone noticing. A date on each figure makes the age visible.

Why it exists

The questions tenants ask are narrow and have exact answers: how much can the rent go up, is my unit exempt, did the notice arrive in time, can the landlord raise it again this year. But the answer is usually spread across several documents. In Ontario, the notice period of 90 days is in the Residential Tenancies Act, the day a mailed notice counts as given is in another section of the same Act, and the days for other kinds of delivery are in the Board's rules of procedure. In British Columbia, the branch counts the notice in whole months of rent, which its own form explains with an example. Nova Scotia's notice depends on the kind of lease.

The tools put those pieces together and apply them to your rent and your dates, and they show the arithmetic so you can follow it. They don't decide anything. Whether an increase stands is for the Landlord and Tenant Board, the Residential Tenancy Branch or Nova Scotia's Residential Tenancies Program, and each province page names free places to ask.

The site covers three provinces and tries to cover each of them completely: the limit, who is outside it, the notice, the gap between increases, what to do if you've already paid too much, and the special cases each province has.

What it is not

• It is not connected with any government, tribunal or branch, or with Statistics Canada. Using their published figures doesn't mean they endorse this site.
• It is not a legal service. I can't look at your lease or your notice, and I don't answer questions about individual cases.
• It is not on anyone's side. Landlords use the same tools as tenants and get the same answers.

How it is paid for

By advertising. The plan is to show ads to cover the cost of keeping the figures checked. Today there are none, and the site sets no cookies. Advertisers will have no say over any figure, rule or tool result.

Sister publication

I also edit Owed at Work, a separate reference on the money owed to workers in Canada when a job ends. The two sites share an editor and the same habit of citing the official source, and nothing else.

Corrections and questions about the site go through the contact page. How figures are checked and rounded is set out in the methodology.

Sources

1. LTB Operational Update: Legislative Changes at the Landlord and Tenant Board (June 30, 2026)Tribunals Ontario
2. Residential Tenancies Act, 2006, S.O. 2006, c. 17 (consolidation from September 21, 2026; currency date September 28, 2026)Government of Ontario

Every source listed here was consulted on September 30, 2026.