{"id":66,"date":"2026-09-21T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.room-vu.com\/joeannsellshomes-ca\/2026\/09\/21\/ontario-rent-rules-shift-in-september-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T09:00:00","slug":"ontario-rent-rules-shift-in-september-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeannsellshomes.ca\/blog\/2026\/09\/21\/ontario-rent-rules-shift-in-september-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario Rent Rules Shift in September 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-zmyer\">\n<div class=\"video-frame-zmyer\">\n        <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\"\n                src=\"https:\/\/www.roomvu.com\/agent\/embed\/joeann-chabrol\/ontario-rent-rules-remotion-videos-dbbe\"\n                frameborder=\"0\"\n                allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"\n                allowfullscreen><br \/>\n        <\/iframe>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"video-description-zmyer\">\n<p>Starting September 21, 2026, Ontario&#039;s N4 non-payment notice for monthly and yearly tenancies will shorten from 14 days to 7 days before L1 filing.<br \/>\nTenants can still void an N4 by paying full arrears before the termination date, and payment may still stop proceedings after filing.<br \/>\nOntario will define persistent late payment as rent arriving &gt;7 days late on at least 3 occasions within 6 mo, creating a clearer N8 threshold.<br \/>\nAt non-payment hearings after September 21, tenants raising maintenance, harassment, or entry issues will need to pay 50% of claimed arrears 7 days beforehand.<br \/>\nFor N12 personal-use evictions, 120-day notice will waive one month&#039;s compensation, but the occupant must move in within 60 days or face a bad-faith presumption.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting September 21, 2026, Ontario&#039;s N4 non-payment notice for monthly and yearly tenancies will shorten from 14 days to 7 days before L1 filing. Tenants can still void an N4 by paying full arrears before the termination date, and payment may still stop proceedings after filing. Ontario will define persistent late payment as rent arriving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":189,"featured_media":157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeannsellshomes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeannsellshomes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeannsellshomes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeannsellshomes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/189"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeannsellshomes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeannsellshomes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeannsellshomes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeannsellshomes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeannsellshomes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeannsellshomes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}