In Ontario, your landlord cannot enter your home whenever they feel like it. Illegal entry, surprise inspections, unannounced visits, and intimidation at the door can all be violations of your rights, and you can apply to the LTB about them.
Quorex can help you document illegal entry and automatically generate your T2 application to protect your privacy rights.
Protect Your Privacy NowA landlord must follow strict rules to enter your home.
Illegal entry includes:
All of these are prohibited under the Residential Tenancies Act.
The law allows entry only in specific situations:
The notice must:
Actual emergencies only:
Not "I need to check something."
You can give permission verbally — but only if you choose.
Only if you've given notice to move out, and they must still behave properly.
You file:
Illegal entry = interference with reasonable enjoyment and often harassment.
If the landlord used entry to scare or pressure you, also include:
(especially if targeting disability, family status, or other protected grounds)
Quorex can help determine this automatically.
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)).
Record:
A log written at the time is a dated record of each entry.
Screenshots are perfect evidence.
You can record your own interactions without telling the landlord.
If they enter illegally or confront you → record it.
Photos of:
Neighbours or family who saw or heard the entry.
Whether an entry was legal depends on the notice given and the reason for it (Residential Tenancies Act, ss. 26–27). Examples tenants raise:
Quorex can:
Upload your evidence → Quorex builds your case.
Start Your Privacy CaseNot without notice.
No. It must be written.
Yes — the time must be "reasonable."
Yes — you can record your own interactions.
It can be. Illegal entry is its own issue on a T2 (Residential Tenancies Act, s. 29(1), para. 6), and repeated entry can also be harassment or interference with your reasonable enjoyment (paras. 3–4). You can raise all that apply.
Quorex makes filing for privacy violations simple and accurate. Get your forms generated, evidence organized, and case prepared in minutes.
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