Public, but not usable
On July 24, 2026, Tribunals Ontario started publishing final Landlord and Tenant Board orders through Ontario's Open Data Catalogue. It is a genuine step forward for transparency: until now, seeing whether a landlord had a string of maintenance orders against them, or how a dispute at your future address was resolved, meant a formal records request or digging through CanLII.
The catch is the format. The release is a single comma-separated spreadsheet — tens of thousands of rows, addresses jammed into one unparsed column, and a download link wrapped in a spreadsheet formula. Open, technically. Useful to a renter comparing two apartments on a phone, not really.
So the Rentol.ca team did the unglamorous part: imported it, parsed the addresses down to postal code and street number, split the party names into something searchable, and put a search box on top of it.
What you can do now
- Search a landlord or property company — see the orders a landlord, property manager or housing co-op appears in, and what was applied for.
- Search by postal code or city — every published order recorded at an address, with a link to the official PDF on Ontario's servers.
- See history on the listing itself — Ontario rental listings now show LTB activity at that postal code: how many orders, who filed them, and the most recent ones.
- Search a tenant name — available to signed-in users, with every search logged.
- Read the original order — every result links straight to the Board's own PDF, so you are never taking our word for it.
What the data says — and what it doesn't
This is the part most tools gloss over, so we will be blunt about it. The published catalogue records what was applied for, not what the Board decided. A file showing an eviction application does not tell you whether the tenant was evicted, whether the case was voided on payment, settled, or dismissed outright. That outcome only exists inside the order document itself.
Rentol.ca labels every result accordingly rather than guessing. The catalogue also contains no date of birth and no identifier, so people who share a name are indistinguishable in it — results are presented as possible matches to check against the address and dates, never as a verdict. And we do not publish a tenant score or risk rating of any kind. A number like that turns a factual record into something people act on without reading it.
Coverage currently begins at January 2026, with older orders back to 2021 being added in phases. An empty result means nothing was published for that address in this window — not that there is no history.
Built for both sides of the lease
Most products built on this data point one way: at tenants. We think that is the wrong instinct for a rental marketplace. A renter deciding between two apartments benefits enormously from knowing that one building has a run of maintenance orders or a bad-faith eviction finding against its owner — and that information was, until three weeks ago, effectively locked away.
So the landlord search is open to everyone, listing pages show building history without naming any private individual, and tenants can look up their own record for free before any landlord can. Orders granted confidentiality by the Board are excluded entirely, and anyone who believes a record is wrong can flag it — we suppress it while it is checked.
The data is the Government of Ontario's, published under the Open Government Licence – Ontario and reproduced as-is. Rentol.ca is not affiliated with Tribunals Ontario and does not verify the records. It joins Parkify.ca, Taskal.ca, CarLinx.ca and Homezo.ca as another Dhandaz Tech platform built on the same idea: connect people directly, and give them the information to decide for themselves.
Free to use — no account needed for landlord or address searches.