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Video Blog: Ontario Government Stops Rent Increases for 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRMpKbK6CAE&feature=youtu.be The government has frozen rent increases, and is treating landlords differently from other small businesses during the pandemic. Why are landlords always taking the hits? Jon Maloney explores [...]
Video Blog: How to Evict a Bad Tenant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vv2xc2G81AY&feature=emb_title In our latest video blog, HighGate CEO Jonathan Maloney discusses how to go about evicting a bad tenant in Toronto, breaking it down step-by-step to ensure that [...]
Video Blog: Condo Rentals Down 25% Landlords Are Worried
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivmafb3h1ic&feature=emb_title HighGate CEO Jonathan Maloney reveals that Toronto rental condos are down a staggering 25%, discussing why these problems exist for landlords and what should be done in [...]
Video Blog: How To Pick The Best Tenants for Your Property – Step by Step Guide
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZyHf_sQa8U&feature=youtu.be In our second video blog, HighGate CEO Jonathan Maloney discusses how Toronto landlords can choose the best tenants for their rental property, allowing you to mitigate the [...]
Video Blog: Landlord & Tenant Board is Allowing Toronto Tenants to Trash Apartments
Welcome to our first video blog! Our first instalment features our CEO, Jonathan Maloney, discussing how the Landlord & Tenant Board is handing down decisions which allow tenants to not [...]
How to Set Rent Price on a Rental Property
There are many challenges that first-time landlords have to overcome when getting into the rental property market including proper tenant screening, the ins and outs of a lease, property maintenance, [...]
Prioritizing Rental Property Maintenance Requests
Next to screening tenants, maintenance is the most important task that landlords take care of on a regular basis. Without regular maintenance, rental properties can fall into disarray and tenants [...]
Can Ontario Tenants Change the Locks to Their Unit?
Too many landlords have been faced with a situation where they’ve arrived at their rental property to conduct an inspection or have maintenance done, and found that their tenant has [...]
How to Build Long-Term Rental Relationships
Every landlord dreams of being able to do away with the endless stream of interviews, screening, and inspections that come with short-term renters and bad tenants. The best way of [...]
How COVID-19 is Impacting Toronto Real Estate
The COVID-19 pandemic has had far reaching implications around the world, forcing entire nations to lock down in order to slow its spread and free up critical resources. Canada hasn’t [...]
Why Aren’t Toronto Landlords Applying for the COVID-19 Rent Subsidy?
In late April, the Ontario provincial government announced that it had partnered with the federal government to implement measures with the goal of assisting small businesses and landlords throughout the [...]
Showing Your Property to Prospective Tenants in a Post-COVID World
The COVID-19 crisis has impacted the Canadian real estate and rental industry in ways previously thought impossible. Everything from the regular functions of realtors and lawyers to the duties of [...]
How Toronto Landlords Should Deal with Problem Tenants After the COVID-19 Crisis
As the province of Ontario seeks to return to some semblance of normalcy over the coming months, businesses are expected to begin the slow process of reopening. This means that [...]
Your Quarantine Spring Home Maintenance Checklist
With schools and most businesses temporarily closed due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and government orders for Canadians to stay home to help flatten the curve, people have found themselves [...]
COVID-19 Considerations for Toronto Landlords
The battle to flatten the curve and slow the spread of COVID-19 continues all around the world. Canadians have been urged to stay indoors, practice proper hand washing and hygiene [...]
11 Important Questions to Ask Your Toronto Property Management Company
If you’ve recently made the decision to hire a property management company, it’s a good idea to sit down and draw up a list of questions you want to ask [...]
What the Revamped Mortgage Stress Test Means for Toronto Homebuyers
The federal government recently announced big changes to the mortgage stress test. The stress test was originally put in place back in January 2018, ensuring that borrowers would be able [...]
How Much Notice Do Tenants Who Have Experienced Domestic Abuse Have to Give?
Domestic abuse is an extremely difficult subject to tackle, but it’s a situation that landlords may find themselves in the middle of at some point during their career. A number [...]
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