Written for owners, not for guests.

Short pieces on the things a Toronto owner has to decide before letting a unit. No listicles, no market predictions, and nothing written to hit a keyword.

Rules

The 180-night cap, explained

What the annual limit on entire-unit short-term letting means in practice, why it matters less than owners fear, and what happens to the other half of the year.

4 minute read

Choosing a model

Short-term or mid-term for an investment condo

Most Toronto investment condominiums cannot legally run nightly. What mid-term looks like instead, and how the two compare once you count more than the nightly rate.

4 minute read

Rules

What condo declarations say about rentals

City rules are only half of it. Your declaration can restrict letting further, almost nobody has read theirs, and it is the first document we look at.

3 minute read

Preparing a unit

Furnishing a unit for mid-term stays

A month-long stay is not a weekend. What a guest actually needs when they are living somewhere, and the three things owners routinely waste money on.

4 minute read

Preparing a unit

What guest-ready actually means

The standard a furnished unit is held to before it takes a booking, and what the pre-onboarding site visit is really checking for.

3 minute read

Money

How owner statements work

Reservations, gross revenue, management fee, operating expenses, net paid to you. What is on the document each month and which line to read first.

3 minute read

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