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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Issue ManagementDamp and water ingress: find the cause before paying for repairs
Repainting a damp patch costs a little. Repainting it every year for eight years costs a lot, and the wall is worse than when you started.
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Condo AccountingA building in difficulty: the warning signs a board can read
A building never collapses at once. It slips slowly, and the signals are readable three to five years before the crisis.
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Condo LifeCreating a bike store: the best-value project in a building
Bikes in the hall are not a civility problem: they are a storage problem. And that can be solved.
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Property ManagementBuilding insurance: cover, excesses and blind spots
Most buildings discover what their policy contains on the day of the claim. That is the worst possible moment.
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Collective DecisionsUrgent works: who decides when the meeting cannot wait
The meeting is eight months away and the boiler died in January. That case is provided for — you just need to know how it works.
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Collective DecisionsSplitting or merging units: what it changes for the whole building
A large flat turned into three studios means three times the traffic, waste and wear — for the same share allocation.
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Condo ProjectsBuilding accessibility: the improvements a board can champion
Three steps at the entrance are enough to cut a resident off from their building. And the subject almost always arrives too late.
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Collective DecisionsReplacing windows in a condo: permission, consistency and pitfalls
An owner replaced their windows over the summer without asking. Here is how the board can stop it happening again.
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Collective DecisionsAir conditioning and heat pumps in a condo: what gets voted, what gets refused
Every summer the requests arrive — and every summer some units appear on the façade with nothing ever voted.
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Condo LifePets in a condo: what the rules can ban, and what they cannot
A clause bans pets. An owner has a dog. Who is right — and above all, what can the board actually do?
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Property ManagementBalconies and railings: the inspection a board cannot postpone
Balconies are the most exposed part of a building and the least often inspected. They are also where an accident is irreversible.
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