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Landlord Tenant Services:

Legal Help Serving Hamilton, Fort Erie, Grimsby, Niagara Falls, and Near You



Last Updated: July 05 2026

Question: How can Gutoski Legal Services help me if my landlord and I need to handle a Landlord Tenant Board dispute in Ontario?

Answer: Gutoski Legal Services is a paralegal-led legal service in Ontario that helps landlords (including when a property manager acts for the landlord) and helps tenants resolve Residential Tenancies Act disputes by reviewing the facts, preparing the right Landlord Tenant Board forms, and negotiating a practical settlement where possible,  if agreement is not achieved, they can represent you at Landlord Tenant Board hearings and help ensure the matter is brought in the proper forum to avoid delays or dismissals under Residential Tenancies Act, 2006, S.O. 2006, c. 17,  for fast guidance in Hamilton and nearby areas, call (289) 902-0227 to get started today.

Advocacy For Landlords

Gutoski Legal Services helps landlords to understand the various rights and responsibilities owed to the tenant as well as the rights and responsibilities as are owed to the landlord.  In a legal dispute, Gutoski Legal Services provides services that may include document preparation for the various Landlord Tenant Board documents such as the applicable Notice and Application forms as well as resolution negotiations, representation at Landlord Tenant Board hearings, and other issues. In short, Gutoski Legal Services provides legal help for many of the various dispute issues that may commonly, or uniquely, arise within a landlord and tenant relationship.

Advocacy For Tenants

To a tenant, your rental dwelling is 'your home'. Of course, 'home' means something unique to everyone and these special feelings are recognized. With this said, Gutoski Legal Services also recognizes that impartial empathy is often necessary to remain focused upon the legal issues and to remain an objective advisor and negotiator. Gutoski Legal Services helps tenants to resolve disputes by first reviewing the facts and issues and then by working to negotiate a resolution with the landlord. If resolution is evasive, Gutoski Legal Services can prepare the required Landlord Tenant Board forms and advocate at Landlord Tenant Board hearings.

Gutoski Legal Services provides legal services for Landlord and Tenant Board matters involving Cases Involving Tenants Who Interfere or Disrupt Other Tenants, and other issues, as issues common to concerns governed by the Residential Tenancies Act, 2006S.O. 2006, Chapter 17.  With this said, sometimes when a dispute involves a residential landlord and tenant, certain issues must proceed at the Landlord Tenant Board.  The failure to bring specific issues into the proper forum may cause a dismissal the proceedings.  It is also possible that when a dispute is brought into the wrong forum, the right to a redo or a restart of proceedings in the proper forum is lost.  Accordingly, choosing the proper forum is imperative.  With other cases, such as commercial tenancy disputes, the issues are always beyond the jurisdiction of the Landlord Tenant Board and must be pursued in the Superior Court depending on the legal issues involved.

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