A cover photo describing the article about condo liens and the limitations act.
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Really Old Condominium Fee Arrears – What is the Impact of The Limitations Act?

How long is too long with Fee Arrears Liens? A recent decision came out in support of condominium corporations that are trying to find the most cost-effective way of dealing with their condominium fee arrears.  The court affirms that the old…
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Condo Bylaws and Airbnb rentals

A big decision for condominium boards coming out of Alberta in Condominium Corporation No 042 5177 v Kuzio, 2020 ABQB 152. This is a decision to make permanent an interim injunction that was granted in 2019.  In short, the unit owners were…
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Stigmatized Properties – “Who You Gonna Call? ….The Ghost Lawyers!”

Stigmatized properties are those in which there is nothing objectively wrong with the physical premises. However, due to the history of the property, it has a negative experience associated with it. This could include properties in which murders…
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Beware of Exploding Bathrooms and Other Lessons from Rentals

A family rents one of your rental properties. Decent interview, parents gainfully employed, and basically a model tenant. Then your house blows up. Such was the case in the decision of Carteri v Saskatchewan Mutual Insurance Company,…
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“Not a Non-Resident” … a Pricey Double Negative.

Imagine you just bought a property worth $5,560,000. (Long pause there. That’s a pretty unlikely thought for a lot of people.) As you are finally settling in with the millionth empty box, you go to check the mail. You find a bill to the…