| • | Plus when the municipal grants and their insurance runs out, they will
have to pay rent on top of their regular monthly condo expenses. https://bit.ly/2sAv3st |
| “I would say if the consumption of cannabis has been legal for a day, or a week, or even six months, how much grandfathering do we need to grant people? When you bought your condo, did you buy it knowing that you'd be able to smoke cannabis here?” he says. |
| The standard grandfathering period for a tobacco smoker would be two
years, Escayola says. The period for cannabis smoking would be much
shorter, considering the period during which it will have been legal. https://bit.ly/2BAq15e |
| Nathan Counts, 40, has also been ordered to pay $3 million in
restitution for starting the Feb. 12 blaze that damaged 28 units at the
Ramblewood East condominiums on the 4100 block of Northwest 88th Avenue. https://bit.ly/2wimiTU |
| 1. |
Where
is the consumer protection for potential buyers? What is the name of
this condo? What is the address? Condo owners don't want potential
buyers to know that their buildings have, or had, problems. |
| 2. |
Condo owners need savings in case they get hit with a special assessment or any other other catastrophe. |
| 3. |
"The pricing that they gave us just seemed really, really high. So I did some of my own research," said Keith."I found out that there were contractors out there that were much more reasonably priced." |
| Interesting
that the owner found cheaper qualified contractors to replace her Kitec
plumbing lines. I would ask to see the three quotes that the management
company brought to the board and compare them to the quotes the owner
obtained. (90 owners went with the lower price.) |
|
| 4. |
Real Estate Broker Andrew Ipekian says most condo boards and property management companies don't know it's lurking behind the drywall, and when you don't know something exists, you can't inform a new buyer. |
| Buyers of condo resales should get written assurances that the condo does not have Kitec plumbing. https://bit.ly/2Lr3kzN |
| Smokers often head outdoors to light up on balconies or wooden decks. A flower pot or planter makes an inviting ashtray. But when the potting soil is dry and the temperature is hot, a cigarette butt can act like a match and a balcony or deck as a tinderbox. |
| In 2017, the Toronto Fire
Department recorded 51 fires that started on balconies out of 114
smoking-related fires. As of Aug. 7 of this year, of 54 smoking-related
fires, 25 have been on balconies. https://bit.ly/2wl9Oe7 |
| But the company did not explain why it hadn’t asked Kudos Home and
Design to pay the repair bill, as they had offered, and why the bill
for repairs had nearly tripled from the original estimate. https://bit.ly/2nRLCw9 |
| The right of owners to canvas owners to sign a requistion to remove directors. https://bit.ly/2wddgrd |
| A lawsuit where the judge wonders why the condo board showed no interest in investigating proxy fraud. https://bit.ly/2weYm3w |
| The majority of the board and the property managers try to have
commercial proxies added to the voting instruments after the AGM in
order to change the result. https://bit.ly/2KY2bzH |
| Justice Myers writes that condo boards should not be bullies. https://bit.ly/2L3MJ4R |
| Thieves caught on Pamela Nelson's dash camera on July 24. |
| Alberta: After multiple break-ins at a Sunset Ridge condo parkade, tenants of the building are fed up and are calling for better security. |
| “It’s unbelievable how often this is happening,” said Pamela Nelson, a renter in the building. “We’ve got to do something.” https://bit.ly/2nOPjCP |
| Several members protested that this was a conflict of interest because the budget included a substantial increase for the management company. |
| The manager also decides on who our executive will be, so we end up with the same person as president every year. The president does little about the behaviour of the manager and the remaining six council members are ready to resign. |
| Who is in charge of our strata corporation (condo)? The manager or the strata council (board of directors)? https://bit.ly/2vTku4l |
| And for the first time since police began compiling this data, reports of stolen bikes from apartments, condos, and their private storage rooms and garages are higher than reports of bikes stolen off the street. |
| Currently, the Toronto police online bike registry allows people to
share their personal information along with the serial number, model,
colour, and make of bicycle. "Once we have that registration, it's
actually quite an easy process to connect that bike to someone else,
because we do come across a lot of stolen bikes," he added. https://bit.ly/2nGONa1 |
| In addition to the $54,000, they’ll also have to pay interest and unspecified court costs and legal fees for the strata. https://bit.ly/2Mb3yAy |
|
What's next? Will people who want to get into the short-term home rental
business be able to lease condo units from Airbnb? https://bit.ly/2OpFuq3 |
| Instead of second-guessing the board and management company, the judge ruled that the ex-director failed to prove that the board did not fairly and reasonably, in good faith, exercising the care, diligence, and skill that a reasonably prudent person would exercise in comparable circumstances. |
| She lost and will pay the condo corporation's costs. |
| In a fight like this, the
ex-director would have to have, in my opinion, active fire department
or city work orders and expert witness testomony to backup her claims. https://bit.ly/2MyyRkT |
| It will also be taller than the First Canadian Place (72 storeys), the Adelaide Hotel Toronto (which was once known as Trump Tower and stands at 57 storeys) and the TD Canada Trust Tower (53 storeys). |
| The tower will feature 900 units that will boast anywhere between 390 and 941 square feet of space. https://bit.ly/2OHM37N |
| California law requires that associations ensure neutral third party
oversight of the entire election process. However, in most states, it’s
common for members of the board, a community association manager, or
the association’s attorney to collect and tabulate ballots and proxies,
managing the entire voting process from nomination to election day. |
| So the opportunities to rig elections is there and will not be disappearing anytime soon. https://bit.ly/2B2KEXi |
| This is another case where an owner finds out that her leased investment unit is being short-term rented. There are dozens of small companies that use rented condo units to make money renting them out short-term. |
| Some owners know this is
happening and as long as their monthly rent cheques keep coming in,
they are quite happy with this arrangement. https://bit.ly/2M3ovxn |
| Condo owners may be aware of how hard she worked to help us get improvements made to the provincial Condo Act. |
| I don't think playing cat and
mouse with Airbnb, and all the other short-term companies, will solve
that much unless the municipalities put a lot of resources behind this
effort. https://bit.ly/2KEd61o |
| Fortress Real Developments said in an email Tuesday that a court order appointing a receiver to the St. Catharines project has no impact on it. |
| "Fortress' focus at this time will be working alongside the receiver to guide the project through the approvals process," the company said. |
| I don't think I would buy a pre-construction unit. I'd wait until it was completed and residents have moved in. https://bit.ly/2nplWa6 |
| Mounties confirmed there's an investigation relating to the project. https://bit.ly/2M6TZ5o |
| On Nov. 26, Miller went to the victim's house and urinated in the victim's generator. An argument ensued, and the victim then went back inside his house. |
| Miller reportedly picked up a wooden post and used it to break the
victim's sliding glass door. He then entered the victim's home and hit
the victim with the post. https://bit.ly/2Ohmb24 |
|
So far this year, Edmonton has had 54 fires caused by smoker's
materials, leading to an estimated $19.3 million in property losses. https://bit.ly/2Apd7q2 |
| The Tribunal Member then stated: "If this is true, then the strata admits it ought to have known that repiping was likely required in a 21 year old building with original copper piping." |
| I don't think that "everyone
knows" that condo towers will need repiping anytime after 15 years. If
they did, they would be asking a lot more questions before buying a
unit in an older condo. —CondoMadness https://bit.ly/2Ow8A8i |
|
This is just some of the behaviour Katherine Hughes has seen from short-stay guests in her A’Beckett Street apartment tower. https://bit.ly/2vjb2pK |