Tips for your property
Practical guides, legal obligations, and best practices to manage your condo association board and property with confidence.
Condo Board OrganizationJust elected to the condo board: your first 90 days
Nobody will hand you an induction pack. What you know about your building in three months depends on the questions you ask this week.
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Condo Board OrganizationBoard meetings: how to run them and keep a record
A board meeting with no minutes is a conversation. With minutes, it is work — and evidence.
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CommunicationThe building’s WhatsApp group: why it derails, and what replaces it
A chat group keeps everything and finds nothing. That is precisely the opposite of what a building needs.
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Condo LifeThe new resident’s welcome pack: the document that saves a hundred questions
A newcomer asks the same twelve questions as the last one. Answering once, in writing, saves ten years of doorbells.
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Collective DecisionsTendering: the two thresholds your meeting may have forgotten to vote
Two resolutions, voted once, decide everything the manager may commit without asking you, for years.
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Condo AccountingCalls for funds and the annual adjustment: what you actually pay
What you pay each quarter is not your bill: it is an advance on a budget voted last year. The bill comes at the end.
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Condo AccountingThe five accounting annexes: what each one tells you in three minutes
They arrive with the notice, nobody opens them, and they hold everything you need before voting.
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General MeetingGetting an item on the agenda: the only way to obtain a vote
Anything absent from the agenda cannot be voted. It is the simplest rule in condo law, and the one most often discovered too late.
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Issue ManagementAn owner refuses access for the works: what to do
One refusal can stall a project the whole building voted. The law provides for it — and for who pays the delay.
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Condo LifeCluttered landings, annexed corners: taking back the common areas
It starts with a pram and ends with a partition. In between, nobody said anything — and that silence sets precedent in the building.
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Condo Board OrganizationSwitching to a volunteer manager: what it really takes
A volunteer manager does not remove the manager’s work: it moves it to an owner, with the same duties and none of the professional licence.
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