Rent Arrears Desk · Ontario

Every arrears file worked the same week, the way your policy says.

Nexbuzzer reads your daily ledger export, texts tenants in English and French, sends you payment plans to approve by email, and drafts each N4 with the dates worked out. Nothing waits in aged receivables for someone to get to it.

Works from the ledger export you already run
Tenant texts in English and French
Plans and exceptions approved by email
N4s drafted with every date shown
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For portfolios of 1,000+ units. No portal for your team to learn.

Today's arrears desk
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Illustration. Tenants, units and times are fictional.
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Ledger matched
EN · FR
Tenant texts
1 click
Approvals by email
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New software
Where arrears money leaks

The problem isn't knowing who owes. It's working every file, every day.

Days slip before anyone reaches out.

Reminders go out when someone has time. A tenant who would have paid on day three is still owing on day twenty.

One wrong date on an N4 costs weeks.

A termination date a day too early, the wrong service method, or non-rent charges on the notice, and the application starts over.

Plans and promises live in inboxes.

Who agreed to pay what, and when, is scattered across emails and sticky notes. Broken plans are noticed a month late.

How it works

Your ledger in. Decisions to you. Work done.

Each morning your property-management system emails the aged-receivables report you already run. From there, the desk works every file on your written policy.

1

Daily ledger export

Every balance matched to the right tenant, rent separated from other charges, and each case opened, updated or closed.

Automatic
2

Reminders and replies

Short texts from a number in your name, on your policy days, within your contact hours, from templates you approved.

Automatic
3

You decide by email

Payment plans, disputes, hardship and accommodation requests come to you with one-click buttons. Texting pauses until you decide.

Your decision
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N4, then your paralegal

N4s drafted with every date shown and reviewed before you sign. If rent is still owing, your paralegal gets the evidence packet.

You sign · they file
What tenants see

Respectful, short, and in their language.

Tenants are answered in English or French, based on their preference or how they write back. Anything sensitive goes to a person.

  • From your name, on a dedicated local number, with your payment link.
  • No threats, ever. Messages never mention eviction, the Board, credit or collections.
  • STOP and ARRÊT work instantly. Opt-outs, pauses and former tenants are checked before every send.
  • Disputes, hardship and accommodation pause texting and go to your team with a summary.
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Example conversation with a fictional tenant.

N4 dates, worked out

The termination date depends on how you serve.

Every N4 draft shows its working. When you record how you actually served it, the desk checks the printed date still holds. Pick a method to see the difference.

Rent due Sunday, 1 November

Notice given Friday, 6 November · 7-day notice period

Rent unpaid
2 Nov
Earliest day a notice can be given
Given
6 Nov
Handed to the tenant
Deemed served
6 Nov
Same day by hand
Termination date
13 Nov
Printed on the N4

Illustration. Service rules are recorded in your policy and confirmed by your counsel at setup.

You stay in control

You write the policy. The desk follows it to the letter.

Recorded at setup, versioned, and logged against every action. Example settings shown.

Arrears policy · approved by you v1
Reminders
Day 2 and day 4

After rent is due, in the tenant's language.

Contact hours
9:00 to 20:00

Toronto time. No Sundays or statutory holidays.

Message limit
3 a week

Proactive texts per tenant. Replies to tenants don't count.

Payment plans
Up to 3 in 6 weeks

First payment at least 25%. You approve each one.

N4
Drafted on day 5

Rent only, dates shown, reviewed before you sign.

Handoffs
Pause and pass on

Disputes, hardship, accommodation and legal questions.

Every text, decision, notice and date calculation is stored with who did it and when, ready for your file or your paralegal.

Nexbuzzer Arrears Deskto you · 10:41
Plan approval: unit 615

The tenant asked to split $1,640.00 into 3 payments. Proposed under your policy:

Instalment 1$410.00 by Mon 9 Nov
Instalment 2$615.00 by Mon 30 Nov
Instalment 3$615.00 by Mon 14 Dec
Approve planReject plan

Plan approved

Texted to the tenant. They reply YES to accept.

Example email. Amounts are fictional.

Decisions arrive by email

No portal. One click.

Plans, N4s, service records and paralegal handoffs come to the inbox your team already uses, with the facts laid out and buttons that do the rest.

  • Signed links that expire after 96 hours and work once.
  • A confirm step, so email link-scanners can never approve anything on your behalf.
  • A reminder the next morning if a decision is past its due time.
Clear boundaries

An arrears desk. Not a law firm, not a collection agency.

The desk works for you, with your current tenants, on rent owed to you.

✓What the desk does

  • Texts current tenants on your behalf about rent owed to you
  • Drafts payment plans and N4s for you to approve and sign
  • Checks notice dates against your counsel-confirmed rules
  • Prepares evidence packets for your licensed representative

✕What it never does

  • File at the Landlord and Tenant Board or appear for you
  • Give tenants or landlords legal advice
  • Contact former tenants or report to credit bureaus
  • Take payments or hold tenant funds
Every day counts

Arrears get harder to cure every day a file sits.

Not next month.

Not when someone has time.

On policy day.

One file, one weekDay 1
Day 1
Rent due
Day 2
Ledger shows owing · reminder 1
Day 3
Tenant replies, promise noted
Day 4
Reminder 2 if still owing
Day 5
N4 drafted and reviewed
Day 6
You sign and serve
Day 7
Service recorded, date re-checked
Day 8
Cure period running

Nexbuzzer works every file on your schedule, so the tenants who can pay, pay, and the ones who can't reach your paralegal with a clean file.

Fits your stack

Starts from the report you already run.

Schedule your aged-receivables export to email us each morning. Setup takes a call and a test file. Nothing is installed in your system.

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Common questions

Before you book.

No. The desk works from a scheduled report export emailed to a dedicated address. You can stop it at any time.
You do. The desk drafts within your written policy and emails you the decision. N4 drafts are also checked by a Nexbuzzer reviewer before they reach you, and you sign and serve them.
Texting pauses for that tenant and the message goes to your team with a summary. The desk never tries to resolve it on its own.
Yes. Templates and replies are in English and French, and tenants are answered in the language they use.
No. When rent is still owing after the termination date, you approve a handoff and your own paralegal or lawyer receives a complete evidence packet to file.
Pricing depends on your portfolio size and the pilot scope. We walk through it on the demo call.
We agree a six-month baseline from your own data, run the desk on one or more buildings, and report monthly against that baseline.
Book a demo

See the desk run on your own ledger.

A 30-minute call. Bring a recent aged-receivables export with tenant names removed, and we'll show you what the desk would have done with it this month.

  • 01
    Walk-throughReminders, approvals and an N4 draft, live.
  • 02
    Your policyYour rules mapped to the desk settings.
  • 03
    Pilot scopeBuildings, baseline and pricing for your portfolio.