As you know, Ontario ’s Condominium Act, 1998 (the “Act”) protects buyers and owners of condominiums in this province and enhances consumer confidence in the province’s marketplace. T he Ontario Government wants to learn from condominium owners across the province about their experiences with condo buying and living.
Our online survey, posted at www.ontario.ca/condos , asks condo owners about the experiences they’ve had with condo buying, as well as with their condo corporations, boards of directors, repairs and maintenance, reserve funds and dispute resolution. The survey also provides condo owners with information about their rights and responsibilities. The survey results are intended to provide a broad snapshot of Ontarians’ experiences so we can better understand the needs of condo owners. This information may be used to guide further research or policy development in the future.
I encourage you to promote this survey to condo owners in your membership by distributing copies of the attached flyer through your office(s) and mailing lists. The Ontario government is committed to a fair, safe and informed condominium marketplace. To see more, please click HERE
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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.