You may be legally evicted under the TPA for the following reasons:
- You have not paid your rent;
- You have “persistently” paid your rent late. There is no definition of “persistently” ;so technically, after a very few times of paying your rent late, the landlord could apply to evict you;
- Your landlord or certain members of your landlord’s family needs to live in your rental unit. This does not apply if the building is owned by a corporation;
- A purchaser or immediate members of the purchaser’s family decides to move into your unit. This does not apply if the building has more than three units;
- You commit illegal acts on the premises;
- You or your guests “willfully or negligently” cause damage to the building;
- You or a guest “substantially interferes with the reasonable enjoyment” of the building by other tenants or the landlord. This means such things as making a lot of noise, partying loudly late at night, etc.;
- Your apartment has more people living in it on a regular basis than allowed by health, safety, or housing standards laws; and
- You are a tenant in social housing and you misrepresent your income.
See Sections 51, 52, 61, 62, 63, and 64 of the TPA.