 It has been two years since CAFCOR was founded by a group of condominium owners. The motives for the formation were disappointment and sometimes despair with the current state of affairs in the condominium industry. Two years past and we came to realize that the concept of providing assistance based on work of volunteers is not sustainable. The number of requests for our help was simply overwhelming. It is difficult to request from a volunteer to keep contributing 20 hours or more work a week. While we understand the level of frustration directed against CAFCOR and expressed on our Forum, we must also say that the attacks are not a fair reward for all the hard work and help that CAFCOR has provided.
What are we going to do next? How are we going to move forward? At this point in time CAFCOR is at a crossroad. We do need your input and your help! Please share your ideas on the options and possibilities that could be explored and followed. We created a new email address to be used for this purpose:
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Like Little Towns. In speaking with friends who serve on municipal Councils and Boards, I am struck by the utter disbelief they display upon hearing of the lack of accountability of our Boards of Directors and Property Management Companies and of the baffling lack of "enforcement" on the part of the Ontario Government. Each and every one, without exception, has stated that if the antics of
some Directors, Officers and Property Managers of some condominium
Corporations were to occur in the sphere of "municipal governance",
those responsible would be facing the scrutiny of the Ministry of
Municipal Affairs and Housing, the Ministry of the Attorney General and
investigations by provincial auditors and regional and provincial
police services.
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 Some Boards of Directors, with help from some property management companies and condominium lawyers, intentionally and with malice, refuse to follow the governing documents of their condominium Corporations (Declaration, By-laws & Rules) as well as provincial legislation and regulations. These Boards make up their own rules as they go along and usually in order to shirk their responsibilities and/or to intimidate and oppress unit Owners, particularly unit Owners who oppose them. They will choose to apply certain Rules to certain unit Owners and not to others. Why do they do this? Because they can!
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8480 Condominiums in Ontario
The High Price Of Condominium Arbitration. A condominium is a community of people with common interests and the theory is that the community should try to resolve disputes by agreement rather than the adversarial process. Mediation is seen as a “win-win” process which allows disputes to be resolved by a communication process leading to a common understanding of the needs of the condominium community. Read more...
The minutes of Board meetings are important legal documents, yet many Corporations do not pay enough attention to them. Some Corporations put far too much detail in them, while other Boards keep minutes that do not accurately or completely reflect the Board's decisions. The purpose of the minutes is to provide a permanent legal record of the actions of the Board.