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Board of directors should have to justify any threat of lien. This is used as an effective weapon to coerce extra funds from condo owners who because of the small amount versus the cost of legal fees, just pay up. That small amount multiplied a few time makes for quite a killing. |
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Small claims court too is guilty of minimizing the position of condo owners. The very first statement of every lawyer, court deputy to me was that it was a small amount. As far as I understand and by its very name, small claims court is for ‘small’ claims. |
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Lawyers will always represent the board of directors as opposed to condo owners. Courtesy of condo owners, the directors don’t have to worry about paying their bills since it is not coming out of their own pockets. |
• | A condo owner must have access to some unbiased entity in a dispute with Board of directors and the Board of directors must show (not hiding behind lawyers paid for by that condo owner) the evidence for the action before a threat of lien is given to a condo owner. |
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A Board of directors unable to
justify going to court to other condo
owners must face some kind of reprimand. They are not shy to announce
the court case at the AGM presumable to intimidate the condo owner
taking them to court. They use other condo owners to malign the condo owner and manipulate information and details to cause disruptions among all condo owners especially at AGMs. The best solution I believe is that all members of the Board of directors must resign if they cannot demonstrate to other condo owners that their money spent to go to court will be retrieved. |
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Lastly, special meetings for important decisions should be voted on in person. Proxies are too easily attained by intimidation especially from the elderly. |