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 AccountingOwnership shares: understanding the number that decides everything
Shares set your bill and your weight at the meeting. Almost nobody knows how they were calculated.
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General MeetingPostal voting: the form that must come with the meeting notice
It is the simplest way to involve absent owners. Provided the form is attached, and that owners know it exists.
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Collective DecisionsExclusive use of a garden or terrace: what it actually allows
A garden you have exclusive use of does not belong to you. The whole difficulty sits in that sentence.
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Condo AccountingA separate bank account: why the board should insist on it
It is the simplest safeguard a building has: your money, in an account in your name, that you can look at.
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General MeetingThe meeting bureau: chair, secretary and scrutineers
A badly run meeting produces fragile minutes. It is settled in the first five minutes, when the bureau is appointed.
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Property ManagementMechanical ventilation: the cheapest maintenance nobody thinks about
A stopped ventilation unit is neither seen nor heard, and costs the building thousands in damp repairs.
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Condo Board OrganizationCondo archives: what to keep, for how long, and where
The day you need the minutes from 2009, they will be in a box — or nowhere.
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Condo ProjectsRoof and waterproofing: life expectancy, warning signs and renewal
It is the one element whose failure damages everything below it, floor after floor.
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Property ManagementGrounds and tree work: what the board should plan for
A tree left unpruned for ten years costs more to fell than it would have cost to maintain. And it always falls on something.
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Condo LifeBin store, recycling and bulky waste: taking back control
The bin store mirrors the building: when it degrades, everything else follows within months.
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Condo ProjectsModernising a lift: what the board should examine before voting
Often the second-largest works item in a building. And the only one whose downtime cuts some residents off from their home.
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