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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Property ManagementElectrical rising mains: who owns them and who pays
A building often discovers it owns its electrical distribution the day it must be replaced, for a five-figure sum.
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Condo AccountingIndividual water meters: worth fitting, and what actually changes
Fitting meters does not reduce the building’s consumption. It changes who pays for it — which is not the same thing.
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Issue ManagementCracks and subsidence: building the file before the expert arrives
A crack photographed and dated is worth infinitely more than a crack described from memory three years later.
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Condo LifeCommercial units in a condo: charges, nuisance and coexistence
A shop on the ground floor is not a problem. A shop whose usage nobody framed becomes one within two years.
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Condo Board OrganizationGoing to court on the association’s behalf: who decides and who pays
Proceedings started without a voted budget and without a strategy stop at the first call for funds. It is the most expensive way to lose.
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Condo Board OrganizationSecondary association: when several blocks no longer share interests
Two blocks, one lift, one meeting: those who never use it still vote on the other block’s works.
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Property ManagementCleaning the waste stacks: the maintenance that prevents water damage
Backflow on the ground floor is never an isolated accident: it is the symptom of a stack nobody has cleaned in ten years.
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Condo LifeLetting a parking space: what the building can regulate
Letting your space is a right. Handing a building access fob to a stranger is another question.
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Condo ProjectsRefurbishing the stairwell: the most visible project in a building
It is the only project every owner will see every day. It is also the least prepared.
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Condo Board OrganizationBoard members’ terms: length, resignation, replacement
A board never disappears at once: it empties out, one departure at a time, until it can no longer meet.
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Condo LifeWorks inside a flat: hours, notice and damage to the neighbour
Renovating your own flat is a right. Running rubble through the lift for six weeks is not.
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