by admin | Nov 22, 2019 | 2019 Toronto Star Property Law Column, Toronto Star Property Law Columns
Bob Aaron bob@aaron.ca What’s better for Ontario condominiums and their owners: electronic proxies or electronic voting? And what’s the difference? I recently wrote about solving the problem of condo owner apathy to meetings, where their votes are needed, by...
by admin | Nov 8, 2019 | 2019 Toronto Star Property Law Column, Toronto Star Property Law Columns
Bob Aaron bob@aaron.ca I am regularly surprised at how frequently a land survey is viewed as unnecessary when it could be considered the single most important document in a real estate transaction. A survey was the focus of a court decision released last month in...
by admin | Oct 25, 2019 | 2019 Toronto Star Property Law Column, Toronto Star Property Law Columns
Bob Aaron bob@aaron.ca An easy solution to the problem of owner apathy in condominium buildings, and a simple way to encourage interest and participation, is to introduce electronic voting. Back in November, 2017, the Condominium Act was amended to allow electronic...
by admin | Oct 15, 2019 | 2019 Toronto Star Property Law Column, Toronto Star Property Law Columns
Bob Aaron bob@aaron.ca If the city of Toronto was serious about tackling the housing shortage, why would it charge Toronto homeowners $300,000 to legalize three bachelor apartments in their house? Patrick and Susan own a three-storey home in central Toronto. In 2001,...
by admin | Sep 27, 2019 | 2019 Toronto Star Property Law Column, Toronto Star Property Law Columns
Bob Aaron bob@aaron.ca When homebuyers discover before closing that the sellers are involved in boundary litigation with their neighbours, are they obliged to close the deal? And when buyers discover that the land being purchased is smaller on paper than it appears on...
