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An owner-developer now has the opportunity until the first annual general meeting to amend the strata plan to designate parking stalls as limited common property for the use of strata lot owners and, in addition, to…
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Following upon the leaky condo case discussed in Column 304 of an owner’s refusal to pay a special assessment, is another case in which the developer…
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The Alberta Condominium Property Act requires that, upon the sale of residential units, substantial holdbacks from the sale proceeds to be paid to the developer…
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The businesses in a retail shopping centre in Richmond were carried on by owners or tenants of strata lots in a strata corporation…
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We have leasehold strata plans and phased strata plans and now something entirely new: “sections.” A strata corporation may create sections to represent the different interests of owners…
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When a buyer defaults and the listing agent sues the seller for commission, there have been two lines of legal thought as to whether the listing agent should succeed…
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Completion of the revisions to the Condominium Act will be delayed, according to the Ministry of Finance and Corporate Relations to allow for a further discussion of the major five following issues…
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Column No. 266 described a B.C. Court of Appeal decision that a valid trust can be created by a properly worded independent contractor contract, despite the illegality of that form of contract under…
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Since many developers are now pre-selling before there is a hole in the ground, their presentations to prospective buyers can only be based upon models, plans and sales brochures portraying the merits of the…
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Section 125(6) of the Condominium Act states that except where a unanimous resolution is required, an owner is not entitled to vote at a general meeting, unless all contributions payable for the owner’s strata…
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The Condominium Act, as out-of-date as it is in many respects, may provide a remedy to a strata lot owner, who finds that a decision of the strata council to manage part of the common facilities for the benefit of…
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Another decision concerning the right of a strata corporation to pass by-laws limiting occupancy to those of advancing years and to prohibit the rental of any strata units…
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Over a period of four years a ground floor condominium owner experienced water seeping through the exterior wall of her condominium…
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The Supreme Court of British Columbia is widening the remedies available to purchasers of condominiums against the former owner or the developer…
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The frequency with which these columns are dealing with Section 30 of the Condominium Act, and the decisions the courts apparently feel obliged to make as a result of…
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Failure to comply with the Condominium Act may result in an unsuccessful action brought by a strata corporation or the failure of arbitration…
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Column #210 discussed the impact upon adult only condominium developments of amendments to the Human Rights Act concerning discriminatory practices based upon the age or family status of a prospective tenant…
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How do amendments to the Human Rights Act (HRA) affect a developer pre-selling strata residential units in an intended adult only development?…
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If section 441 of the Criminal Code of Canada were better known to tenants, less of them might trash rented premises. This section makes it an offense, punishable upon conviction for up to five years imprisonment…
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The Residential Tenancy Branch of the Ministry of Labour and Consumer Services distributes a useful brochure outlining the rights and responsibilities of landlords and tenants in British Columbia…
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A sales brochure for a condominium project which consisted of 55 strata lots and 69 parking stalls, stated that each unit was entitled to one parking stall and that an additional stall…
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This section states that no expenditures in excess of $500 shall be made by a strata council unless: (a) an emergency exists, or (b) the expenditure was set out in the annual budget…
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It’s probably just a coincidence that the manufacturers of stereo equipment are packing more noise into a smaller box at a time when more condominiums are being built, and more and more people are living separated…
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Two recent commission cases in which the judges could have as readily ruled against the licensees were instead resolved in their favour. In the first case, the owner…
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The recession of the early eighties left many purchasers of homes unable to make the monthly payments under the mortgages they assumed when they…
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These three Acts proclaimed by the Legislature in Victoria may contain a number of booby traps waiting to explode in the face of the unwary, but each contains at least one…