Harassment from a landlord is illegal in Ontario. Whether they are yelling, threatening, entering without notice, targeting your children, discriminating, or trying to pressure you to move out — you do not have to tolerate it.
Quorex walks you through which form applies, where it is filed, what evidence supports it, and the deadlines that may apply to your situation.
Quorex provides legal information and document preparation, not legal advice. Quorex is not a law firm and cannot guarantee that a tribunal will accept a filing.
Harassment includes any behaviour that is:
The law protects your security, dignity, and reasonable enjoyment of your home.
Targeting you based on:
Harassment after:
Landlord sends workers who:
Landlord is responsible for workers' behaviour.
The landlord must not:
The T2 form exists specifically to protect you from this.
If harassment also involves:
... then file:
The repairs go on the T6 and the harassment on the T2. Each form lists the orders you can ask the Board for.
If the Board finds that the landlord, the superintendent or the landlord's agent harassed, threatened, coerced or interfered with you, entered your unit illegally, changed the locks without giving you a key, or withheld a vital service, it can order one or more of the following (Residential Tenancies Act, s. 31(1)). What it orders, and any amount, depends on the facts it finds.
An order that the landlord, superintendent or agent must not do it again to any tenant in the building.
A reduction of the rent for the period the conduct affected.
The reasonable cost of repairing or replacing your property that was damaged, destroyed or disposed of, and other reasonable out-of-pocket expenses the conduct caused you. Keep the receipts.
A fine the landlord pays to the Board, not to you.
The Board can also order the landlord to pay all or part of the higher rent you pay for one year after you left, and your reasonable moving and storage costs (s. 31(2)).
What you can show the Board depends on what you recorded, so record everything.
Record every incident:
A log written at the time, with dates, is how you show the Board what happened and when.
Screenshots of:
Keep every threatening message, even a single one.
You can record your own conversations without telling the landlord.
If they yell, threaten, or harass — record it.
Neighbours, family, or workers who saw or heard the behaviour.
Harassment combined with:
... is part of what happened: put it in your log and your T2, with how it affected you.
Quorex can:
You check every form and document before you file it.
Start Your Harassment CaseNo. Verbal abuse is harassment.
Absolutely not.
Yes — you may record your own interactions.
It can. Harassment by a landlord because of race, disability, family status, receipt of public assistance or another ground in the Human Rights Code is also prohibited by the Code (s. 2(2)), and that part can go to the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario.
No — but your evidence package can protect your privacy.
Quorex makes filing for harassment protection simple and accurate. Get your forms generated, evidence organized, and case prepared in minutes.
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