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Do I Need A Lawyer to Help Me with my Residential Purchase and Sale?

There is another law firm in Regina that was doing a sponsored Facebook post advertising their services for helping through buyers and sellers through residential purchase and sales. They had some basic copy that asked “Did you know you need…
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Reserve Fund Investments in Saskatchewan

There has been some buzz lately in the local condominium scene about a news article by various news outlets about the use of Bitcoin as an investment vehicle for reserve funds.  I have been reached out to in a number of ways to get my thoughts…
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COVID-19 and Closing Real Estate Deals

This article is probably going to be outdated in three days. However, I’m getting a lot of questions about how we are doing things in this new world. Lawyers have a tendency to be technologically slow, and nothing like a worldwide pandemic…
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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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Why is Unit Owner Condominium Insurance so Important?

If you have never lived in a condominium (and sometimes even if you have), you may not be aware that, with some small exceptions, a condominium corporation gets insurance for the building and unit improvements up to the standard unit description.…
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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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“Not a Non Resident” – And Other Phrases that Can Cost You $92,000

The Tax Court of Canada affirmed a tax assessment this summer of $92,000 on what appears to be an innocent purchaser of residential real estate property. The case of Kau v. The Queen, 2018 TCC 156 demonstrates one of the other tax liability…
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Deal with it sooner than later: Cannabis and Condos

The legalization of cannabis has been the subject of intense debate, but the date of legalization has been set: October 17, 2018. This date creates some real urgency to have boards consider their bylaws, as I will discuss below. The Cannabis…
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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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Victims of Domestic Violence and Residential Leases – New Legislation

Domestic violence is a significant problem in Saskatchewan. With StatsCan reporting some terrible statistics regard the rate of violence in province, the Government of Saskatchewan has tried to clear another hurdle in having someone leave a…