Condo Reporter - What remedy is available when a Condominium corporation treats owners unfairly? - Comments

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Rod Escayola — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 17:35:39 -0500

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Rod Escayola — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 17:35:39 -0500

This is incredibly common. It's sad that residents find themselves in conflict with everything from important things to silly things such as disabilities to minor annoyances, and often it's triggered by a change of fore person on a condo board. Or a "butting of heads"

Perhaps it is difficult to expect impartiality from a condo board made of of fellow residents. It's like the old days of fence wars between homes in a subdivision. We get actionable complaints on everything from parties and sound to Christmas wreaths on the door. We just ran an interesting story on http://condo.ca, a personal story of a resident who fought back and lost against her condo board. She blames the new fore person of the condo board for making her life miserable. http://www.condo.ca/profiles/blogs/condo-owner-lost-in-her-dispute-with-board-advises-buyers-to-be-i

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Rod Escayola — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 17:35:39 -0500

Thank you VERY much for this valuable information! The Condominium Act is not altogether unclear, but this post helps to put things into plain English such that ordinary tenants and owners can be aware of what their rights and responsibilities are.

Keep up the great work!

Victoria

Rod Escayola — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 17:35:39 -0500

Great article!

Condo Directors need to be personally liable and owners need something like the Landlord and Tenant Act to protect them.

I received 2 noise complaints (from a Board Member). My property manager did not follow condo policies (notice within 48 hrs and discuss/resolve issues in writing), some incidences occurred when the unit was vacant...but my Board won't enforce them due to conflict of interest. We followed up with him after the 2nd letter and was told that there was no issue, and its been resolved.

A month later, we received a legal notice for $500 and "continued non-compliance". We met with the Ombudsman who agreed it seemed unwarranted and brought it back to the Board. We have not heard from them for 2 months, thinking it was dismissed. 2 months later, exactly 1 day after the AGM, we receive a Notice of Lien and $850 for ignoring the first letter.

We even have evidence that another owner had a similar issue (not with a Board Member), but were given the opportunity to meet with the Board and Property Manager and avoided any legal involvement!!