I warned you guys about this... it's time to stop calling your lawyers and take it to a "media fixer". Really. Do it.
Calling Mitch or other principals is like yelling into your toilet bowl (assumes installation).
I don't think going to the media would be a good idea, especially if we want the value of our condo to go up. Bringing it to the media will just make our building worse than it seems.
I'm fine with the overall look of the building, I'm just very disappointed with the way they delivered it.
I use to be a project coordinator and they definaley have to get the plumbing, electrical, flooring and main walls up in order to allow for anyone to do an inspection and take occupancy. If they don't have those up, the city won't allow for them to perform PDIs.
When the vendor didn't allow for me to put certain deficiencies on my PDI list, I wrote a letter to Tarion stating what the problems were. The lawyers can't really do anything but give you advice, it's a waste of money to go to your lawyer unless you're taking legal action. Whenever there's a major problem in your unit, you should write a letter to the vendor and cc Tarion. As long as you have a record of your deficiencies, Tarion will protect you. Also it's very important to submit your 30 day, if you don't then most likely the vendor will screw you over and not all of your deficiencies will be fixed.
After you submit your 30 day, the vendor has 120 days to repair every item on that list. If they don't finish in time, you call Tarion and request for a conciliation. Tarion's rep will contact you and the vendor to arrange a date to go through your 30 day list. If the vendor doesn't fix all of your deficienies, then they will lose a certain amount of points. These points are important to them because when they lose a certain amount of points, they will lose their liscense to build. If you want to know what's warrantable or what's not, go to
www.tarion.com, there is a construction guideline you can read on. This is the guideline that that vendor has to go by. If the vendor loses the conciliation, they then have another 30 days to fix everything or else, tarion will send their own workman and backcharge the vendor.
It sucks because if the vendor doesn't fix everything, we have to go through a 6 month process before everything is resolved but this is the only right way of doing it if you want all of your deficiencies to be corrected.
With the balcony issue, unfortunately it's a common area. We don't really own the balconies and if there's anything wrong with the exterior of the building, we'll have to wait until the tech audit to take place. This won't happen for while, it might even take up a year before this happens, especially with the way they're going with the exterior.
For the condo board, this won't form until after the building is registered because legally the condo is not ours yet.
By the way, does anyone know who's our property manager, I don't think we got that information when we closed. With most developers, when you close, they would provide a booklet with emergency contacts, a manual to walk you through the condo and a nice welcome gift but I guess this vendor is too cheap to give anything.
