A condominium corporation’s decision to spend $500,000 on a cryptocurrency product called “Pink Piggy Investment Group” has resulted in the suspension and potential revocation of the license of the condominium manager.   Read the article…………………………….

A neighbourhood association wants the Saskatoon Police Service (SPS) to take a different approach to policing in the area by investing in prevention.   Read the article…………………………….

Q:   After consultation with our insurance broker, we were advised that we could exempt our strata from a collective strata policy by unanimous vote if all the owners agreed and signed a waiver. Other than one unit owner — who we can’t reach at this time — everyone is in favour.  Is this a dangerous […]

Qian Wang told the Civil Resolution Tribunal she and her daughter enjoy the little evergreen in front of their townhouse ‘especially at Christmas’ but the tribunal has ruled the strata can cut the tree down at will to protect a retaining wall from its roots.    Read the article…………………………….

Dear Tony: Our property manager advised us that our minimum contributions for our AGM will be effective Nov. 1, but we are holding our meeting on Oct. 25. With the increase of all operating costs, we were hoping to delay any contribution this year to offset significant increases in strata fees.   Read the Q&A…………………………………

Q: What do we do if our strata council will not hold a special general meeting that the owners have petitioned? Our council continually violates our bylaws and the Act and fails to enforce bylaws. After firing our gardeners, they purchased landscaping equipment without the authority to spend the funds or terminate the contract.   Read the […]

A B.C. couple has been ordered to stop smoking in their home and on their patio, losing a bid for an exemption to their strata’s bylaw.   Read the article……………………………..

The City of Williams Lake has renewed its State of Local Emergency (SOLE) for the Terra Ridge strata development at 500 Wotzke Drive.  Four of the 80 units in the complex were issued a ‘Do Not Occupy’ order on September 15 after the city received a concerning engineering report.    Read the article…………………………….

A B.C. woman who bought a condo with plans to use it as an Airbnb part-time has lost her bid for an exemption to the strata’s bylaws prohibiting short-term rentals.   Read the article………………………………

A group of condo residents in Montreal’s Ville-Marie borough is suing the city after their building flooded several times. They say experts have proven the building is up to code—the problem is on the outside.    Read the article……………………………….

Q: Dear Tony: What do we do if our strata council will not hold a special general meeting that has been petitioned by the owners? Our council are continually violating our bylaws, the Act and failing to enforce bylaws.     Read the Q&A………………………………

Q: Our strata corporation is a mixed-use of residential and retail. Since its opening in 2014, all the property owners showed up at the annual meeting, and each person was given a voting card, whether in person or an electronic meeting.   Read the Q&A……………………………..

B.C.’s Civil Resolution Tribunal has found a Vancouver strata council treated a member unfairly in removing him but said it can’t reinstate him as his term ended.  Read the article…………………………….

Four homes in a Williams Lake, B.C., group of duplexes have been ordered evacuated and the remainder are on evacuation alert over concerns about their structural integrity.   Read the article……………………………

Dear Tony: Out strata corporation is a mixed use of residential and retail. Since it’s opening in 2014, all the property owners showed up at the annual meeting and each person was given a voting card, whether in person, or shown in an electronic meeting.   Read the Q&A………………………………

Arcane legal documents can stand in the way of new builds, even when city has approved them    Read the article………………………………

A Burnaby apartment owner battling $22,000 in strata bylaw fines for renting out one of his rooms to a roommate has won a victory at the Civil Resolution Tribunal.   Read the article………………………..

The owner of a Burnaby apartment has won the right to use a parking spot she parked in for 12 years before her strata declared it was actually a walkway.   Read the article………………………..

The allocation of parking stalls at strata properties around Canada is a big deal for residents, generally regarding matters of convenience and accessibility, and one townhouse owner took his strata corporation to court over the issue.  Read the article………………………..

Dear Tony: Our 14-floor building in Burnaby is experiencing chronic failures of our hot water. The strata corporation maintains, or rather avoids maintaining, our four boilers, which provide for hot water for the units. Heating is electric in each unit and each unit has a gas fireplace.    Read the Q&A……………………………….

City billing officials are now engaging condo associations in Medicine Hat to extend a “cost-pressure relief” program to individual unit owners who pay bills via their condo fees, officials tell the News.  That program, passed last, week provides $800 over the next three months to residential – $2,000 for businesses – utility account holders on […]

Q: Our bylaws require an owner to pay for any strata insurance deductible when they have caused a claim, but does this also apply to a flood caused by the owner when there is no claim?   Read the Q&A……………………………..

B.C.’s Civil Resolution Tribunal has dismissed a strata’s claim against a disabled elderly grandmother after it claimed her grandson did not meet the complex’s 55-year-old age requirement when he provided the woman overnight medical care.  Read the article………………………..

In just over a decade, several hundred Albertans have been forced out of their condos in high-profile evacuations. Previous cases provide a troubling blueprint for the challenges ahead for the displaced residents of Castledowns Pointe.   Read the article………………………..

Dear Tony: Is a strata entitled to collect the amount of damages from an owner when the origin of the claim is from their strata lot? Our bylaws require an owner to pay for any strata insurance deductible when they have caused a claim, but does this also apply to a flood caused by the […]

No one will be living in the Castledowns Pointe condos anytime soon, even though the bills still need to be paid, in what is being described as a “financial tragedy” in north Edmonton.   Read the article………………………..

No one will be living in the Castledowns Pointe condos anytime soon, even though the bills still need to be paid, in what is being described as a “financial tragedy” in north Edmonton.   Read the article………………………..

A B.C. Supreme Court judge has upheld a B.C. Civil Resolution Tribunal decision finding that a strata hot tub is patio furniture that can be allowed on balconies.    Read the article………………………..

As evacuated Castledowns Pointe residents prepare to meet Wednesday to hear more about the structural issues that have forced them from their condos in northwest Edmonton, a question hangs over their heads: who built the property engineers say could collapse and what happens next?   Read the article………………………..

Q: Our council permitted an owner to install a charging station and a heat pump in 2022. The owner has sold their unit, and the new owner has declined the use of the charging station but has accepted the continued use and obligations for the heat pump.  Read the Q&A……………………………..

A BC strata tried and failed in its attempt to fine an elderly resident’s family members and kick her caregiving grandson out of the property.  The Chilliwack strata levied $2,400 in fines, then went to the BC Civil Resolution Tribunal when the family didn’t pay. Instead, the Tribunal found it failed to make accommodations for […]

In 2004, Concord Pacific submitted a development permit application to the City of Vancouver to build what is now called The Erickson, an 18-storey strata condominium building that sits on 1560 Homer Mews, right along False Creek.  The Erickson is equipped with an array of amenities that are common in luxury condo buildings: a theatre, […]

The owners of a Richmond city centre condo have been ordered to pay their former strata more than $120,000 in legal and sale enforcement costs – after a battle over a $7,500 lien.    Read the article………………………..

Q: The CEO of Concord Pacific has lost a court challenge over who gets to use a 6,000-square-foot amenity space in the 17-storey Yaletown condo building where he owns the penthouse unit.    Read the article………………………..

B.C.’s Civil Resolution Tribunal has dismissed a strata’s claim against a disabled elderly grandmother after it claimed her grandson did not meet the complex’s 55-year-old age requirement when he provided the woman overnight medical care.    Read the article………………………..

Q: Our strata corporation is a Vancouver Island apartment-style mid-rise complex. The units range from apartments between 700 to 1,200 square feet and townhouses that average 1,600 square feet. Condo fees for small units are around $350 per month, with the larger units at $800 per month. We have a pool, underground parking, guest facilities, an […]

Some form of relief from high utility bills may be back on the table this fall, city council members heard Monday after representatives for 2,000 city condo owners said rising bills are walloping their budgets.   Read the article………………………..

Q: Our owners refuse to contribute enough to our contingency funds, and we are always in some sort of equipment crisis because we don’t apply sufficient maintenance. Owners and several real estate agents claim our fees are too high, but we can barely manage the services.   Read the Q&A………………………………