D. Anderson Legal Services

05/05/2023

A "perfect storm" of factors including the 2018 election, inefficient practices and the COVID pandemic has left Ontario's trouble-plagued Landlord and Tenant Board (LTB) "fundamentally failing" to provide swift justice, the province's ombudsman says.

04/27/2023

Hello friends!!!!

Niagara Falls Tim Hortons restaurants have selected Community Food Literacy Centre and Project Share as the recipients of this year's week long initiative. From May 1- 7 please consider adding a few smile cookies to your Timmies order. When you dunk a smile cookie in your coffee you will be helping to feed empty tummies in Niagara Falls...!!!!
We will be there painting smiles on cookies!!!!

06/26/2022

D. Anderson Legal Services formerly Unicus Legal Services is here to assist you with continued dedication to prompt and cost effective client service in matters that are important to you.

03/27/2022

An Ontario man says he's owed more than $35,000 from a tenant who isn't paying his rent but also refuses to move out.

10/19/2021

Renters across the province received notices of their rent's going up as the Ontario government's rent freeze is set to expire Jan. 2, 2022. We get three per...

07/24/2021

https://barrie.ctvnews.ca/mobile/ontario-premier-warns-landlords-price-gouging-after-barrie-tornado-to-stop-immediately-1.5519751?fbclid=IwAR1n02MgVXezfXAEH3XxOsWVbVVbd_wlGMb704p3A64PZATSyARxp0pihDE

Premier Doug Ford is "strongly urging" landlords involved in price-gouging rental properties in Barrie, Ont., following a tornado that caused roughly 100 people to be displaced to "stop immediately."

07/02/2021

https://www.chch.com/air-bnb-guests-wont-leave-or-pay/?fbclid=IwAR0p4QbQdKitg_imItC1S8gtWat6uOkEh2AOUsr8Qj4hr07Nxm2BajvuwuM

Two Air BnB guests are refusing to leave, or pay anymore money after their booking ended days ago.

06/30/2021

https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftoronto.ctvnews.ca%2Fmobile%2Fhuge-backlog-looms-fraudsters-empowered-amid-small-claims-court-near-shutdown-1.5489056%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR1V4S-slssG0LLLCT3nJFZIlA-NxBH4YNx9Dv1gU7AzoCTNrWScxa3-W0s&h=AT2Xwv6Pw19ZYojG_Jwp8E-_pYa_0M-MwkyyEYEEl1H_ipSb7p4H5IbEbcqGi-qsfm-fpXZVDwU3_DZkyGNz3t_PjTbTBfzhMqGhxoMTv1TgmGJasrb33Doe4KwZt2GlL-Q25AIbvwkx&s=1

Tens of thousands of people relying on Ontario’s small claims court to settle disputes have been largely out of luck for over a year, as the court has suspended much of its operations despite other courts and tribunals operating remotely.

06/02/2021

Residential evictions resume today with the lifting of the stay at home order.

04/09/2021

https://www.priv.gc.ca/en/privacy-topics/landlords-and-tenants/02_05_d_66_tips/?fbclid=IwAR25A1Xi9QrBVHFt91HNOkQqzLufH27y3I2HRqW5V8ppNRmSSzcS2L9ISgs

Limiting collection, protection and disposal of information

03/22/2021

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/above-guideline-rent-increase-applications-rent-freeze-1.5956415?fbclid=IwAR0QKVjl7pECVmYTnMI90AOfozDRlNizLF8x1RQOAw3dvwmsQjni_7BUo-E

Statistics from Ontario’s Landlord and Tenant Board suggest landlords have increasingly been turning to the board to hike rents, despite the provincial government enacting a pandemic rent freeze for most tenants this year.

12/24/2020

https://www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/news/council/2020/12/09/short-term-rental-owners-concerned-over-proposed-niagara-on-the-lake-bylaw.html

Proposal to require rental properties be principal residences of owners prompts opposition