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0.8% vacancy rate, good luck renting also landlords all use fix term year leases now where you agree to move after it expires in order to bypass the provincial rent increase cap and raise your rent +30% https://www.biv.com/article/2016/6/tight-rental-market-bc-la...

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FWIW, pre-agreed termination agreements like this are void in Ontario. I suppose it's to avoid exactly the situation you describe.

http://www.ontariotenants.ca/law/act05.phtml

Ontario's rental laws are great compared to other provinces with the exception of maybe Quebec.

Once you sign a lease you and roll on month-to-month it's unlikely you will be evicted. Landlords either need to sell the property or move into it themselves to get the property back.

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