Showing Articles from the category 'Your Condo'
Owner Balcony Upgrades
Three Things That Should Be Keeping You Awake At Night
Your Condo || Frederick Hann
It starts innocently enough: An owner in your building breezes in with the news that she’s planning to put some decking and lighting on the balcony. “No problem, right?” she says.
Building Durable Driveways
The Romans Did It, So Can You!
Your Condo || Jeff Truman
Money spent on the best landscape design and best stones will be wasted if the brand-new driveway shows wear after just a few years. Especially if it needs to be re-done again within the owners’ memory! Good engineering design saves you money.
Use Human Behaviour in Finance
to Manage the Decision-Making Process
Your Condo || Matthew Solda
Every individual is exactly that… an individual. We all come from varied backgrounds of unique experiences that form who we are, what we value and why we do the things we do. We want to feel included, understood, appreciated and most of all heard.
To Keep or Remove
Common Area Furniture
Your Condo || Trisha Ashcroft
This question is raised more often these days by building owners and property managers when their building is visited by fire inspectors. Understanding your responsibility for fire safety and taking steps to mitigate risk is important.
ACMO 2000
A Strong Foundation for Success
Your Condo || Steven Hill
Starting a property management company is no small feat. It takes courage, strength, energy and, most of all, creativity. We opened Whitehill Residential with all the best intentions – to take what we have learned from working in the industry over many years to create a business of “best practices.”
What I’ve
Learned
Your Condo || Peter Webb
I have been involved with condominiums since 1973 as a condominium owner and served as a board member on three different condominium corporations where I have lived over the years. I began taking courses to provide insight into complex realities of the then “new” condominium living and the necessity of becoming involved in the community. I started a condominium property management firm in late 1979.
Green is the Colour
of Saving Money
Your Condo || Warren Kleiner
People are concerned about the environment and there are many “green” government initiatives that are intended to help “save our environment”. People also want to save money. Going green and lowering utility costs is a way to do it and lowering costs also improves affordability and market value.
Is a Towering Inferno
Possible in Ontario?
Your Condo || Dale Kerr
Eighty dead, another seventy injured, and over three hundred people homeless. Many say that the Grenfell Tower apartment fire in London, England was a disaster just waiting to happen. One must wonder, “Could such a fire happen here in Ontario?”
Year-end
Case Summaries
Your Condo || Jason Rivait
Patterson v. York Condominium Corporation No. 70, 2018 ONSC 3735
11 Red Flags
When Taking Over a Property
Your Condo || Ronald Smith
Managers are likely familiar with the horror stories of condominium corporations being defrauded and, unfortunately, some of you may have experienced this first-hand. But, my guess is that the vast majority of you have only seen a limited number of examples of fraud, if any. With the enactment of the Condominium Management Services Act, it appears that there is more legislated responsibility being placed upon property managers to be increasingly vigilant for potential improprieties.
The New
Construction Act
Your Condo || Denise Lash, Danielle Swartz
The condominium industry has experienced its share of changes over the past few years, however, there is one more piece of legislation that the condominium industry needs to prepare itself for. As of July 1, 2018, the first wave of amendments to the Construction Lien Act (now called the Construct ion Act ) came into force , which will affect all condominium corporations where a person supplies services or materials to an “improvement” to the common elements of a condominium corporation.
The Twin Towers
Guildwood Village
Your Condo || Linda Duttman
The Guild Inn was a historic hotel located in the Guildwood village neighbourhood. The Guildwood Terrace, located at 3231 and 3233 Eglinton Ave. East, is a twin tower residential condominium which was built in 1990.
Hit the
Road
Your Condo || Henry Jansen
With summer just barely behind us, what’s the rush in reminding the board it needs to be making paving decisions, now? The reason of course is the board missed the fall deadline for the asphalt plant’s closing last November, and had distractions this spring not allowing early action this year.
Lessons Learned
as Professionals
Your Condo || Anne Horruzey
So, what’s it like to be a manager in 2018 under a revised Condominium Act? This is the talk of 2018 for all managers, directors, residents of condominiums and many others in this industry.
Spring Case Law
Update
Your Condo || David Thiel
While much of the attention in the condominium community over the past many months has been concentrated on the ongoing changes to the condominium legislation in Ontario, the courts continue to release decisions of significance. We will explore two of these recent cases in this article.
