Resources
What a Québec plex owner needs to know.
The rules of the lease, the Tribunal administratif du logement and income tax, explained plainly and backed by official sources. Plus free tools for your calculations.
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- 2026 TAL method
Calculate a rent increase
The increase under the TAL method in force since 2026: base rate, taxes, insurance and major expenditures.
- C.C.Q., arts. 1942 to 1947
Renewal notice deadlines
When to give the notice of modification, until when the tenant can reply, and until when you can apply to the TAL after a refusal.
- 2026 rates
Welcome tax calculator
The transfer duties on a purchase, bracket by bracket, at your city's rates, and the first-home credit.
- GRM, cap rate, DSCR
Plex return calculator
Net income, GRM, cap rate, debt coverage and cash flow of a duplex, triplex or multiplex.
Articles
The rules, explained
Every article links to the official texts: Civil Code of Québec, Tribunal administratif du logement, Revenu Québec, Canada Revenue Agency.
The lease and the Tribunal administratif du logement
Renewals, increases, repossession, assignment, unpaid rent: what the Civil Code says.
- Lease and TAL
Quebec rent increase 2027: calculation, deadlines and notices
How the Tribunal administratif du logement's 2026 method works, which dates apply to a lease ending June 30, 2027, and what your rent increase notice must say.
- Lease and TAL
TAL lease 2026: sections F and G and the mandatory lease form
The mandatory lease form in its 2026 version, what to write in section F (buildings 5 years old or less) and section G (lowest rent in the last 12 months), and the language of the lease.
- Lease and TAL
Visits and repairs: when a Quebec landlord can enter the unit
The notice you need to inspect a unit, show it or do work in it, the permitted hours, the rules for major work, and what the tenant can refuse.
- Lease and TAL
Repossession and eviction in Quebec: the rules since 2024
Who can repossess a dwelling, what notice to send, when to go to the TAL and what it costs: the rules of Bills 31 and 65, in force since 2024.
- Lease and TAL
Lease assignment and sublet in Quebec: the landlord's rights
What a landlord can accept, refuse or charge when a tenant wants to assign the lease or sublet the unit, including the option added by Bill 31.
- Lease and TAL
Unpaid rent in Quebec: what a landlord can (and can't) do
When rent is due, when a late payment lets you ask for the lease to be terminated, how to recover the money and what you must never do yourself.
- Lease and TAL
Security deposits in Quebec: what a landlord can require
Security deposit, key deposit, last month's rent, postdated cheques: what art. 1904 of the Civil Code allows, what it forbids and what a breach costs.
Income tax and tax slips
Reporting rent, depreciating the building, filing RL-31 slips.
- Taxes
RL-31 slip (Relevé 31): who files it, when and how
Every landlord renting out a unit on December 31 files a Relevé 31 slip for it and gives a copy to each tenant who signed the lease. Who it covers, what goes on it, the 2027 deadline and the penalties.
- Taxes
Reporting rental income in Québec: T776, TP-128 and CCA
The two forms, the real deadline, co-owners, where repairs end and improvements begin, depreciating the building, and the TP-1086.R.23.12 form every landlord has to attach.
Buying a plex
Purchase costs, and the numbers that tell you whether a building pays for itself.
Calendar
Upcoming deadlines
- School tax, Island of Montréal: second instalment
- December tax instalment
- Repossession: last day for notice (lease ending June 30, 2027)
- RL-31: dwellings rented on December 31
Glossary
The words of the trade
- Capital cost allowance (CCA)
- Capitalization rate (cap rate)
- Comparative factor
- Current vs capital expense
- Debt service coverage ratio (DSCR)
- Eviction
- Gross rent multiplier (GRM)
- Lease assignment
- Lease renewal
- Lease termination (résiliation)
- Mandatory TAL lease form
- Net operating income (NOI)
- Notice of lease modification
- Plex (duplex, triplex, multiplex)
- Property assessment roll
- Rent fixing
- Repossession of a dwelling
- RL-31 slip (Relevé 31)
- Section F of the lease (new building)
- Section G: lowest rent paid
- Security deposit
- Sublet
- T776
- TP-1086.R.23.12 (work on a property)
- TP-128
- Tribunal administratif du logement (TAL)
- Undepreciated capital cost (UCC)
- Welcome tax (land transfer duties)