L1 & L2 Applications
About This Service
Serving a notice on a tenant is only step one — no tenancy in Ontario ends until the Landlord and Tenant Board orders it. The L1 application follows an N4 for non-payment and can include the arrears themselves; the L2 carries the conduct and landlord-use notices (N5, N6, N7, N8, N12, N13) to a hearing. Each application has its own filing requirements, deadlines, and evidence expectations, and a mismatch between the notice and the application is a standard way files die. Carli prepares and files the application, assembles the supporting record — ledgers, notices, certificates of service, photographs, correspondence — and manages the file through the LTB's queue so nothing lapses while you wait for a hearing date.
What Landlords Need to Know
- L1: non-payment cases — can claim the arrears in the same application
- L2: conduct and landlord-use notices (N5, N6, N7, N8, N12, N13)
- The application must match the notice — mismatches are fatal
- Certificates of service prove the notice reached the tenant
- Filing errors mean re-serving, re-filing, and months of delay
Why Landlords Use a Paralegal
The Residential Tenancies Act is unforgiving of paperwork errors. A notice with the wrong termination date, an arrears figure a few dollars off, or an application that doesn't match its notice gets dismissed at the hearing — after months in the LTB's queue — and the clock starts over. Tenants have free Tenant Duty Counsel available at every hearing; landlords who represent themselves are often the least protected person in the room.
Paralegals regulated by the Law Society of Ontario are fully authorized to represent landlords before the Landlord and Tenant Board. LTB hearings are held by video in Zoom hearing rooms, so Carli represents landlords across Ontario from her Burlington practice — professional advocacy at a fraction of the cost of a lawyer.
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