Michal Lahrkamp (a Toronto condominium unit owner) lost a condominium law case in a 12-day trial in Ontario Small Claims Court against a condominiu...
Mario Deo is pleased to be Faculty for Osgoode Professional Development's upcoming webinar about cannabis in condominiums. See belo...
Did you know there is a new status certificate form? Commencing May 1, 2018, condominium corporations will have to start using this new form....
After eleven years of relentless litigation, the Superior Court of Justice has finally declared Michael Lahrkamp a vexatious litigant.
Michael Lah...
April 21, 2017
The following is an executive summary of some of the key proposed amendments that the Protecting Condominium Owners Act, 2015 introduces to the Con...
Kitec plumbing is a significant issue in many condominiums built between approximately ​1995 and​ 2007.
The first draft regulation to support the implementation of the Condominium Management Services Act, 2015 (“CMSA”) has been developed b...
Situations may arise when a board member resigns before his or her term of office is up or a director may suddenly become disqualified under the Co...
June 06, 2016
All too often, residents and their guests disregard a condominium corporation's basic safety signs by closely following other vehicles as they make...
May 30, 2016
The most important component of any condominium is its board of directors. Care should be taken to help ensure that your condominium corporat...
What you need to know as a Condominium Corporation, Director, or Manager
We at Fine and Deo are carefully reviewing and providing advic...
Fines and penalties are used as a means to ensure compliance in society. However, unless prescribed under the Condominium Act, 1998, fines an...
The proposed amendments to the Condominium Act, 1998 will require condominium corporations to issue a directors’ call notice, referred to as ...
May 11, 2016
Unethical directors are an unpleasant reality for many condominium corporations. An effective way to guard against unethical directors is to ...
May 10, 2016
So, you want to install a hidden camera in the condominium corporation's garbage room to determine who is loitering. Did you consider the Pers...
Toronto and GTA condominiums need to be vigilant when signing contracts for services. There are literally hundreds of issues that may arise in cont...
1. MTCC No. 985 v. Cheney; MacKay v. Metropolitan Toronto Condominium Corp. No. 985
Part 1
In a previous case involving the transference of ci...
The disclosure within a status certificate must be accurate as at the date and time it is issued. Care should be taken with the disclosure pr...
We all love email. It is convenient. It is in writing. It is instant. However, “decisions” made by board member...
Many condominium corporations’ Annual General Meetings run very smoothly, according to script, and are completed quite successfully in less t...
We understand that it is easier to have Fine & Deo collect all payments and to manage the entire collection of the lien, and we do this to the ...
September 15, 2014
A condominium corporation’s rules, unlike its declaration, must be reasonable. As a general rule of thumb, a rule is most likely to be reason...
A proxy is a person who attends and participates in a meeting of the owners of a condominium corporation, on behalf of a unit owner. The document g...
July 21, 2014
The Ontario Court of Appeal has upheld a by-law provision which empowers a condominium board of directors to hold an ethics review and disqualify o...
All condominium corporations created prior to the enactment of the Condominium Act, 1998 (“the Act”) should pass a standard unit by-law...