N12 Eviction Response Wizard

No. An N12 is a notice, not an eviction order — only the Landlord and Tenant Board can end your tenancy, after the landlord files an L2 application and a hearing takes place. Many tenants keep living in the unit (and paying rent) while the process runs, which can take months.

For personal-use N12s: the landlord, the landlord's spouse, a child or parent of the landlord or their spouse, or a caregiver for one of those people. A purchaser's family can also trigger an N12 in a sale of certain small buildings. Notices naming anyone else — siblings, cousins, friends — are not valid for this ground.

One month's rent, paid before the termination date (or the landlord can offer another acceptable unit). This is mandatory — an application can fail where compensation wasn't properly paid. Negotiated move-outs often settle for considerably more, especially where the notice has defects.

If the named person doesn't occupy the unit within a reasonable time and live there for at least a year, the N12 was presumptively in bad faith. Within one year, you can file a T5 application; the Board can order the landlord to pay the difference between your old and new rent for up to 12 months, general compensation, your moving costs, and an administrative fine.

Yes — at the hearing, the landlord must prove genuine intention, and you can test it: prior listings, renovation plans, the timing after your complaints, and their history with other tenants are all fair game. Even where the Board accepts the intention, section 83 relief can delay or, in some circumstances, refuse eviction based on your situation.

Not before advice. An N11 is a voluntary agreement to end your tenancy — it waives the protections and remedies that come with the N12 process, including the bad-faith compensation regime. If the landlord wants certainty, that certainty has a price; understand your position's value first.