1. |
Many owners are indifferent. |
2. |
There are suspicions that the property managers are taking kickbacks. |
3. |
The ministry does not know what percentage of condos inadequate reserve funds. |
4. |
Condos are the new supply of rental units. |
5. |
One board president was intimidated and feared for her personal safety because she tried to terminate the property management company. |
6. |
Some owners are going to lose their homes due to corruption. |
7. |
Board secrecy must end. |
8. |
The owners need a Bill of Rights. |
9. |
A board member said that at his condo, the suppliers pay bribes to the property managers and directors. |
10. |
The rights of the owners at the AGM elections are abused. The owners must print their names and sign the ballots at the AGM elections prior to putting them into the ballot box and then the board adjourns the meeting while they take the ballots away to count them in a private place and then announce the results when they return. |
11. |
Owners who are opposed to the board have their cars vandalized. |
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The majority of owners don't their fees to go up so the board will not increase the fees. The property is deteriorating so a group of owners have hired a lawyer to help them force their board to improve building maintenance. |
2. |
One condo does not hold AGMs. There are no elections. |
3. |
The local police fraud squad does not have the resources to investigate fraud by condo management companies. |
4. |
A property manager was fired for corruption so the manager had the owners sign a requisition to remove the board so he can keep the contract. They used rigged proxies to defeat the board. |
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At one condo there are far too people living in some of the units. |
6. |
In one condo, 90% of the units are used as businesses and not for single family residences. |
7. |
One condo has not seen an audited financial statement in the last five years and their board keeps lying to them. |