My tenant had an operation and to be nice I agreed to accept bi-weekly rent payments. Since then he has been constantly delaying the payments and says he will pay an extra $20-$50 each month to catch up, but hasn’t. How can I evict him?

The first thing you need to know is that you should not use up the last month’s rent deposit, that is only applied when there is confirmation that the tenant is moving out. What you have to do is serve the tenant a notice of non-payment of rent which is the N4 Form. This notice gives him 14 days to pay the outstanding rent; if he fails to pay within that time period then you’ll have to file an L1 application, along with a Certificate of Service with the Landlord and Tenant Board to go to a hearing and obtain an eviction order based in the arrears of rent. The forms can be obtained from the Board’s website at https://tribunalsontario.ca/ltb/forms/.

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