The Most Common Void Clauses in Rental Agreements in Ontario

Many landlords insist on adding certain clauses to rental lease agreements, however in many jurisdictions, these clauses are deemed void.
For examples, in Ontario the most commonly reported void clauses in rental lease agreements are:

1. No Pets Allowed
2. Requiring damage deposit
3. Requiring content insurance
4. No subletting
5. No overnight guests

Therefore, if you are signing a rental lease agreement in Ontario, and the landlord ads any of the above clauses, these clauses are void and hence cannot be enforced.

Landlord Webcon

(TORONTO, May 9, 2012) – RentCompass is proud to announce their sponsorship for the 2012 Landlord Webcon, Canada's Apartment Internet Marketing Conference. Founded by Landlord Web Solutions in 2011, the conference provides landlords and marketing professionals an opportunity to learn about the latest digital trends impacting the rental industry. RentCompass is proud to be launching their new Facebook App for Landlords at the conference.
As the first Canadian App in its category available on iOS systems and Android, RentCompass is an invaluable tool for landlords to promote their vacant spaces. RentCompass also leads the pack, breaking onto the Facebook scene with its recent launch of the RentCompass Facebook App allowing users to share, like and communicate about available listings.
RentCompass’ Facebook App for Landlords is a great new addition to their product line. It allows for Landlords to boost the visibility of their properties by having their own listings on the dominant social media platform. This App allows Landlords to list their properties as a tab on their Facebook fan page providing the landlord with a great way to showcase their vacancies.

The RentCompass Facebook app

(TORONTO, May 1, 2012) – RentCompass is proud to present its new Facebook App! As Canada’s first renters’ mobile App available on iPhone, iPad and Android devices, RentCompass has been dedicated to making renting easy and accessible. Get your friend’s opinion on a new neighbourhood or building, or, share a listing with a friend who is hunting for their next space. Canada’s first apartment rentals App on Facebook is a great way for you to learn more about your next apartment from your own trusted network of friends.

RentCompass Launches its Google Plus Page

Google took a big step toward becoming a social branding channel by launching Google Plus Pages for Business this week. At RentCompass, we do believe in the power of social media and hence we instantly launched our RentCompass Google Plus page to extend our other social media presence that is already on Facebook and Twitter.

New Android app update

We have just pushed an update to the Android app. Few minor enhancements to the app include:
1. Current location indicator to show where your current position is on the map. The indicator also includes a GPS accuracy radius.
2. Fixes to issues arising when the device runs in low memory scenarios
3. Additional stability enhancements and bug fixes

To download the app or learn more, check out the app's download page

Android Tablet support is finally here!

We have just released a new update to the Android app which adds support for Android Tablets. There have been few tablets coming to the market like the Xoom, or Samsung Galaxy, so we decided to give a facelift to our app with enhanced UI for larger screens. We also added few usability enhancements. Besides the minor bug fixes, and Tablet support we have also added a special screen for sending emails so we can streamline the email sending process without having to use the phone's email client. It's now can all be done from within the app, although Android makes cross app integration more user friendly. This feature also helps us track email events for landlords in real time as opposed to having to wait for analytics events uploaded from the device.

Android App Update

We have just launched a new update to our Android App. The Android App was missing filtering functionality and this release brings that important feature to our Android users. Many users requested the ability to filter, so we hope this makes it a lot easier now to house hunt on the Android. We have also introduced featured and rentals with incentives, so it is easier to find rentals with great incentives while on the go.
The Android UI was also streamlined to make switching between map and rental list views easier.
Few other fixes were done on the app to address some location detection issues.