Condo Smarts: Be wary about council members who aren’t owners or tenants (BC)

Dear Tony: Our strata corporation proposed a new bylaw at our recent annual meeting that will permit other classes of people to be elected to the strata council.  It does not define what this means, and at our information meeting, the council basically suggested it could be any type of person who might fill our needs, such as an accountant, an engineer or realtor that would be working with us on projects.    Read the Q&A…………………………………..

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