Housing: documenting, on both sides of the lease
The Tribunal administratif du logement received 93,788 applications in 2024-2025, a record. And every year, nearly 7,000 cases close without ever being heard, for lack of a simple proof of notification: cases lost not on the merits, but on the documentation.
The app serves tenants as well as landlords : it is a tool for facts, like a camera.
Tenant
- Mould, vermin, heating failures: photo series (wide shot, then close-up), dated and fingerprinted.
- Every request to the landlord logged: when, how, what response.
- Proof of payments archived, intrusions and pressure documented as facts.
Landlord
- Move-in and move-out inspections photographed and dated.
- Payments and late payments logged, notices sent with their dates.
- Damage and incidents documented factually, room by room.
In the app: choose the “Housing” case type: the log adapts (inspections, requests, payments, incidents) and the reports come out dated, numbered, ready to attach. Open the app (free).
Learn more: the Library
General, sourced, and dated information on housing processes and documentation, on both sides of the lease:
- Housing law in Quebec, the essentials : the complete overview (lease, banned deposit, rent increase, repossession, eviction, TAL recourse)
- Proof of notification at the TAL: the step that closes a great many cases
- Documenting unsanitary conditions, room by room
- Tenant and landlord: a general picture of the obligations
Questions about housing
Short answers, dated and sourced. General information, never legal advice.
- Can a landlord refuse to rent to me because I have children?
- Can a landlord run a credit check before renting to me?
- Can I deposit my rent with the tribunal?
- Can I refuse a rent increase?
- Can I stop paying rent if my dwelling is in bad condition?
- Can my landlord ask for a security deposit?
- Can my landlord enter my home without warning?
- Can my landlord forbid me from having a cat or a dog?
- Can my landlord limit the number of people in my dwelling?
- Can my landlord repossess my dwelling to live in it?
- Do I have 10 days to cancel a lease I just signed?
- How do I file an application with the tribunal administratif du logement?
- How do I know if a rent increase is too high?
- How long do I have to reply to a notice of rent increase?
- How much does it cost to file an application with the tal?
- How much money do I get if I am evicted from my dwelling?
- How much notice is required for a repossession of a dwelling?
- I am 68 can my landlord make me leave?
- I am a victim of domestic violence how do I end my lease?
- I am moving to a chsld or I got low-rental housing can I cancel my lease?
- I can no longer live in my dwelling because of a disability, can I end the lease?
- I cannot attend my hearing at the tal what should I do?
- I do not have a written lease do I have any rights?
- I paid my rent late can my landlord put me out?
- I want to correct or increase the amount of my TAL application, can I?
- I want to leave at the end of my lease what notice do I have to give?
- I want to leave before the end of my lease how do I do it?
- If I refuse the rent increase do I have to move out?
- My apartment is not warm enough what is the minimum temperature?
- My landlord did not send a notice of rent increase does the lease renew?
- My landlord is claiming damages at the end of the lease what do I do?
- My landlord is harassing me, what can I do?
- My landlord is not doing the repairs what can I do?
- My landlord refuses the lease assignment what happens?
- My landlord repossessed my dwelling then re-rented it what can I do?
- My landlord sold the building does my lease continue?
- My landlord wants to convert the building into a condominium, what are my rights?
- My landlord wants to do major work what are my rights?
- My landlord wants to evict me to enlarge or subdivide the dwelling is that allowed in 2026?
- My landlord wants to show my apartment do I have to agree?
- My roommate moved out do I have to pay the whole rent?
- The tenant has died, what happens to the lease?
- There are bed bugs who has to pay the exterminator?
- There is mould in my dwelling what are my remedies?
- We settled before the TAL hearing, what do I have to do?
- What happens to my furniture if I am evicted from my home?
- What is section g of the lease and what is it for?
- What is the difference between assigning a lease and subletting?
- When must my landlord send me the notice of rent increase?
- Who has to repaint the dwelling the tenant or the landlord?
- Why can't I contest a rent increase in a new building?