Late fee calculator
For late rent in Newfoundland and Labrador. Enter the day rent was due and the day it was paid, or leave it unpaid to count to today. You get the days late and the most a late fee can be. Free, no sign-up, and nothing you type leaves this page.
Enter the day the rent was due. The answer appears here.
The rules it applies
- In Newfoundland and Labrador the late fee is set by the minister: Policy 07-007 allows $5 for the first day rent is late and $2 for each day after, to a maximum of $75 for an unbroken run of unpaid rent. The Act itself does not name a figure.
- It is one maximum for the run, not one per month: if the next month’s rent went unpaid too, enter the first day that was missed.
- Rent due on the 1st is due by midnight that day, so the first late day is the 2nd (Policy 07-007).
- Set the fee out in the lease, and tell the tenant in writing when you charge it: in decision 2026-0284-NL the tribunal allowed a late fee only from when the tenant became aware it had been assessed.
- Paying the overdue rent, including the fee, before the date in a notice for unpaid rent cancels that notice (s.19(2)).
- Where a rent cheque is returned NSF, the landlord may charge the tenant the same fee the financial institution charged the landlord, and no more.
In the Newfoundland landlord guide
Where Dweller helps
Dweller works out the run of late rent from the payments you record and adds a late fee only once you confirm it. It never collects rent or fees: the tenant pays you directly.
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