Will your rent be going up this year?
It all depends on the components of your rent listed in the Rental Board's guidelines that are out today.
For example, if your apartment is heated with electricity or natural gas, that won't contribute to higher rent — but if it's heated with heating oil, it could.
Things like maintenance costs, service costs, tax increases and whatever improvements or renovations that have been done to your building may also factor into what you'll be paying in rent in 2019.