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This is for Ontario:

I've been living in my current apartment for two years. It has 4 bedrooms in total and I've 3 different roommates each year. Two of my roommates are ending the lease in May, another one and I are ending it in June. This has already been agreed upon with our landlord.

From what I've researched, it seems that the landlord is allowed to enter our apartment in order to show it to potential tenants without our notice since we've agreed on the lease termination. However, this doesn't seem to be entirely clear (none of us are lawyers or study law). Is he required to give up 24-hour notice or not?

Originally, this would not have been a serious bother to me because I am laid back and open about having guests and whatnot. This was not the case for the two roommates who were present when he brought some potential tenants to see the place early in the afternoon. (One of them complained to me afterwards because she just finished pulling an all-nighter and needed sleep very badly.) When I returned home for that same day, he came back to the apartment and complained to me about how messy we were. (Oh, come on! What do you expect during university cram period?) I was the only one home at the time so I explained that we were all busy, but that we would clean thoroughly before we move. Apparently, those potential tenants were clean freaks who thought our mess was permanent. :confused:

He also complained about some "burn marks" (is that what they're called?) around the rings on the stove. I've looked the Landlord and Tenant Act, which stated that we shouldn't be responsible for "normal wear and tear". Would those burn marks be considered as negligent damage done by us or normal wear and tear?

There are also things like holes in the walls, none of which were caused by us. This is obvious because none of us have posters or anything hanging from them. Many more complaints were had and he wanted us to fix them, some of which would cost us money if we do decide to go with it.

Personally, I would like to remain on good terms with this landlord. He has been very nice to me until recently, when the pressure is on to find new tenants at the end of the academic year. (He was nice to me last year around the same period though.) I've never pursued the following cases about the plumbing listed below because they weren't causing any major safety or health issues:

1. During the two years we've been living here, there have always been problems with the bathroom sink. It kept on clogging, so we used Draino at least 3 times that I can personally remember. We've complained about this to our landlord and he brought his brother to fix it for us. It would work for a while and then clog again. (For those of you who are plumbers, is this normal?)
   
2. During the second year of my stay, there have been problems with the kitchen sink as well. It would leak sometimes. I've crawled under it to try finding the source of the leak but I'm not knowledgeable in that area and couldn't find or think of anything. We've talked to the landlord about this too and he also said he would call his brother to fix it, but he never did. We've complained about this at least twice that I know of but did not persue it any further. We just stuck a towel underneath and replaced it regularly.

So my last question is this: in the case that he does push this further, should I bring up the two plumbing issues? Should I make a written request to have them fixed despite the fact that we will be leaving very soon? We have never made a written request about them previously.

Our atmosphere here is usually very laid back and many things were oral agreements (and yes, I know that's not really reliable even though it can be legally binding). But after talking to my roommates, I'm starting to realise that I've been a bit of a pushover of a tenant the entire time I was here.