Courts examine how condo corporations recoup common-area repair costs (SK)

A dispute between a condominium corporation and a unit owner – ultimately arising from frozen water pipes – has landed at the Supreme Court of Canada.  In 2015, the condominium board of the Erindale Village complex passed a resolution requiring each unit owner to pay a deposit of one months’ rent. In the past, the condo corporation had to pay a $4,000 insurance deductible on damage to common property resulting from cracked pipes, which froze after a tenant shut off water in a unit, Judge Ralph Ottenbreit of the Court of Appeal for Saskatchewan wrote in Goertz v The Owners Condominium Plan No. 98SA12401.      Read the article………………