The Condo Act and a condominium’s governing documents generally give a condo broad enforcement powers to ensure residents are abiding by the rules. Condos often turn to their lawyers to commence expensive legal proceedings as a reliable response to non-compliant
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Avoid Shock – Get the New Ontario Electricity Rebate
Now that the former 8% hydro rebate and rate reduction will be replaced by the new Ontario Electricity Rebate, make sure you report on time to your local distribution company in order to receive the new Ontario Electricity Rebate.
Delegation of Condo Act forms may bring improvement soon
At long last, there’s a glimmer of hope that the terrible new Condo Act forms introduced in 2017 may soon be improved.
On September 20, 2019, the Ministry of Government and Consumer Services announced a proposal to entrust the fledgling
CAT’s out of the bag: The Tribunal’s first year
The Condominium Authority Tribunal, Ontario’s first and only online adjudication body, celebrated its first anniversary on November 1, 2018.
Envisioned as a one-stop shop of expert mediators and adjudicators helping condo boards and unit owners resolve condo disputes across Ontario,
The New Standard Form of Lease and Condo-specific Additional Terms
New Standard Form of Lease
Effective April 30, 2018, landlords of private residential rental units, including condominium units, are required to use a new mandatory form of residential tenancy agreement for all new tenancies (the “Form”). You can download a
Freaking awful
There’s no sugar-coating it. The new prescribed forms under the amended Condo Act regulations are generally terrible.
After spending more than 95 days working with these new forms and counselling and consoling condo owners, directors, managers across Ontario, we present
Suggested new year’s resolutions for the new Condo Authority
It’s customary in late December to ponder resolutions for the coming year, especially for the young and idealistic. We’re neither, but we offer the following 7 suggested resolutions for the new Condominium Authority of Ontario. CAO launched only four months
Links to new prescribed Condo Act forms
After much anticipation and on the final evening before the first major batch of condo law changes came into force, the Ministry of Government and Consumer Services released its new prescribed forms under the amended Condominium Act, 1998 and Ontario Regulation
Bob’s AGM tips
Directors, managers and condo lawyers will spend at least the next year struggling through intricate implications arising with respect to the major amendments to the Condominium Act, 1998 (“the Act”) and its many new regulatory provisions flowing from the Protecting Condominium