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A chartered accountant who misled B.C.’s real estate regulator about his unlicensed property management business has been fined $100,000. According to the B.C. Financial Services Authority, the penalty against Yiu Keung (“Anthony”) Ng is the first of its kind since … Continue reading →

More than two years after finding out their building wasn’t built to code, dozens of condo owners in Surrey, B.C., are suing the developer and contractors behind the project. Homeowners with units in the building filed a lengthy lawsuit this … Continue reading →

Between 2001 and 2004 I was a member of a (BCLNA.com) Landscape Nursery Association committee (RIP Jane) attempting to work with the City of Vancouver and prevent the ban on leaf blowers. “Gas” Blowers were finally banned in the west … Continue reading →

A 6,000-sq.-ft. space on the second floor of a luxury condo building in Yaletown that had been the “exclusive” domain of the penthouse owner — Concord Pacific president and CEO Terry Hui — should be allowed to be enjoyed by … Continue reading →

Do you know the names of your neighbours and do they know yours? A B.C. condo owner went to court to force his strata council to hand over a list of names of all other strata lot owners in his … Continue reading →

Our strata corporation proposed a new bylaw at our recent annual meeting that will permit other classes of people to be elected to the strata council. It does not define what this means, and at our information meeting, the council … Continue reading →

What happens when owners get to a general meeting and the proxy votes have already been counted and the outcome of each resolution is already known? At our annual meeting last week, the property manager pointed out to everyone that … Continue reading →

We had a dreaded flood in our building caused by a defective washing machine where the pump switch failed to turn off. The tenant had started a load of laundry and left to get groceries. By the time she had … Continue reading →