What is the issue? Low fees or language?

The different news reports makes me think that the real issue at the condo corporation is over low fees that a minority, the English-speaking owners, believe is resulting in less maintenance and that the property will deteriorate over time.

There are various statements supporting this argument including this one:
"Gioventu said immigrants from densely populated cities tend not to understand the concept of common property and its required maintenance.

It’s not just a Chinese thing."

“One of the challenges we have seen is there’s a sense of basically running your building to failure. You use it as best you can, and then you sell it off because land is in such high demand,” he said.

This is not just a Chinese issue as the same dispute between the "fee cutters" verse the "maintain the property" factions fight for control of the board in condos everywhere.

Did the majority of owners want to kick all the English speakers off the board or did they want to fill the board with like-minded directors?

Since the low-fee owners greatly outnumber the higher-fee owners, and that is not likely to change, then it may be prudent for the half-dozen ex-directors and their supporters to sell and move on.


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