Tips for your property
Practical guides, legal obligations, and best practices to manage your condo association board and property with confidence.
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Condo LifeImpact noise and hard flooring: what the association can require
A neighbour swaps carpet for hard flooring. Overnight, the flat below hears everything.
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Condo ProjectsConnecting to district heating: what it changes for the building
The building gives up its boiler room and buys heat instead. Simple to say, and a twenty-year commitment.
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Condo AccountingRefusing to approve the accounts: what it means and what it changes
Voting against the accounts does not sanction the manager. It blocks the building, which is not at all the same thing.
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Property ManagementAutomatic gates: safety, maintenance and the association’s liability
A powered gate is the only common area capable of injuring someone on its own. It deserves more than a contract signed once.
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Issue ManagementSnow and ice: what the building must organise before winter
A fall on an icy path is the most predictable claim of the year. It is also the one nobody anticipates.
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Property ManagementCellars: damp, clutter, theft and the forgotten inventory
Nobody ever goes down to the cellars. That is precisely why everything nobody wants to see ends up there.
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Issue ManagementTheft and intrusion: what a building can actually do
After a theft, the meeting votes a camera. Three years later the hall door still does not close.
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Property ManagementCollective hot water: temperature, legionella and network upkeep
It is the only installation in a building where a wrong setting can make someone seriously ill.
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Condo ProjectsSolar panels on a condo roof: what the meeting must decide
The roof is available, the exposure is good, and the project still collapses. Almost always for the same reason.
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General MeetingSecond vote and majority fallbacks: how a resolution passes anyway
A resolution narrowly defeated is not necessarily lost. But you have to know the mechanisms — and have anticipated them.
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Collective DecisionsSelling a common area: the lodge, the loft, a disused room
A disused room earns nothing and costs upkeep. Selling it is possible — but it is the heaviest file a building can assemble.
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