Legally Speaking Streamside Protection Regulation and Standard Logging Practices; Strata Property Act and the Cost of Arbitration #370

A BC Supreme Court judge recently decided that a breach of the Streamside Protection Regulation was a breach of a seller’s agreement to “carry on all logging operations in a good and workmanlike manner and in…

Legally Speaking Appraisers – Renewal, Lease, Date for Valuation of Rent; Property Managers – Doing Business in Washington State #146

Any well drawn commercial lease containing an option to renew at a rent to be agreed upon during the renewal term either provides a formula by which the rent can be calculated, or provides that the rent will be fixed…

Legally Speaking Mobile Home – Freedom of Choice to List With Any Agent #60

An arbitrator acting under the provisions of the Residential Tenancy Act has provided reasons for a decision involving the owner of a mobile home in a park, who had listed her home for sale with a real estate company…

Legally Speaking Problem for a Licensee Asked to Sell a Shareholder’s Interest in a Company Incorporated Under the Provisions of the Companies Act #16

A recent arbitration held in accordance with the by-laws of the B.C. Real Estate Association highlighted the problem for a licencee who is asked to sell a shareholder’s interest in a company incorporated under the…