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    Ontario Condo Owners Survey

    http://www.sse.gov.on.ca/mcs/en/Pages/Condos.aspx Hit the Condo Owners Survey button.
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    Should I buy a condo near Hydro Towers (Yonge/Finch)?

    The only thing the hydro men are is ugly, ugly, ugly and they'll never go away. I really don't think that there is some sinister plot to hide the insidious effects of hydro towers, there would have been a class action litigation party long ago if that were true. It definitely does not affect...
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    Yonge and Sheppard/Finch Condos with an Outdoor Pool

    At Yonge and Finch, 35 Finch Avenue East has an outdoor pool, the condo is called "The Chicago". Quite a nice new building. The postal code is M2N 6Z8 if you use "Advanced Search" on realtor.ca.
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    How do I become a developer?

    My husband is Ojibwe from Wikwemikong. Do you have a miziwe biik or a development corporation where you are?
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    Wanting to enter the landlord game

    Also if you are renting out your condo, make sure you give the tenants a copy of the rules and bylaws and make sure they read it - we have people lie and say they don't have a pet, then they move in with a two dogs the size of donkeys and they get kicked out, get registration forms for the...
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    How do I become a developer?

    Well, you have to know a lot of people, too, that's most of what school is, it's an introduction service. And nothing pays off like an experienced eye for opportunity and for what actually has to be done on a project. For whatever reason, I've seen more boondocks boys make money on real estate...
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    How do I become a developer?

    How come you don't just begin? Do you know how hard it is these days to find someone who can discern a good house in a lousy area from a lousy house in a good area? Not to mention find a good carpenter or drywall person or source person - anybody skilled is almost impossible to find because...
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    Agents' commission

    Today I asked a real estate lawyer, and she only says that "there are a lot of discount brokers out there who will list a property, almost always with reduced services, for less than the standard 2.5%. This does not affect the co-operating broker's 2.5%, however. Commissions are also often...
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    Agents' commission

    We paid 1.5% to the listing agent and 2.5% to the selling agent, the last two times we sold. But we did not try to sell anything in 2009, and these were sure-thing resale condos.
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    Developers monopolizing condo board through proxy votes

    Buyers are interested in their countertops or where they will have a beer after work. I don’t know what will happen when these huge downtown buildings are all turned over at roughly the same times. It will not be easy to find competent, aware, and tough-minded Board members for each...
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    Developers monopolizing condo board through proxy votes

    Holy cats, CN Tower, you'd murderlize the people in our building. Do you know how many people in our condo have walked up to Security after they bought the unit, and asked to speak to the "owner" of the building? Do you know how many people have ordered me to "lower the maintenance fees" - not...
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    Developers monopolizing condo board through proxy votes

    Well, it's not a conflict of interest, it's a representation of interest. And happily, it's the other way around: for as long as the developer is involved and wants to sell a bunch of units, the building will look good and the common expenses will be low (in fact, too low to actually support...
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    Developers monopolizing condo board through proxy votes

    ...Hell, one of the winning candidates simply mailed in his nomination and never bothered to even show up. I don't blame him.... Well, that's the first Board member you should hoof out the door. He doesn't even show up at the first meeting? Ignorant or what! Go ahead, blame him, that's...
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    Developers monopolizing condo board through proxy votes

    But who would vote if they don't? There's no other way to do it and like any other owner, they have that essential legal right to vote on their property. Rosario Marchese, CCI / ACMO and OCHLRC are only a few groups working on revising the Condo Act, and they all have different approaches that...
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    Developers monopolizing condo board through proxy votes

    Proxies are permitted by the Ontario Condominium Act 1998 and there’s nothing we can do about it unless we successfully lobby to change the Condo Act. Unfortunately, proxy ratios and a per-owner system are not possible and they are also inherently unfair.
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    Do I have any rights against lousy property management?

    You guys are so nice. It has been 3 months of effluent coming up the guy's sink and all over his carpet. I doubt that the Property Management and the Board are going to get any smarter any sooner, unless the tenant uses some guerilla tactics. There is a beautiful chance this man will have...
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    Do I have any rights against lousy property management?

    Proxies are only used for certain types of voting and for certain types of meetings, but proxies are not used for representing an owner to the Board or for access to the Board (Ontario Condominium Act 1998). He may be able to get some other type of owner's consent but even then, just because an...
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    Do I have any rights against lousy property management?

    You're a renter in a condo, so you probably don't have many options. If you are on a lower floor in a tall high rise, maybe the building's kitchen stacks need to cleaned, it's all the grease, hair and dirty water from the units above that is bubbling up into your sink. Soon, it could burp up...
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    First time condo buyer: Yonge/Shep - Opinions requested

    7 Bishop Ave & Pemberton loop at Yonge & Finch v. Yonge & Sheppard Top Rate, I live at 7 Bishop Ave at Yonge and Finch. There is TTC Finch station noise, giant hydro men and TTC parking lot at the north side of Bishop and Hendon. It's not pretty (yet). 7 Bishop and most of the “Pemberton...
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    Insurance Thread (condo/home/rental)

    House insurance not condo insurance Sorry, I don't know about houses

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