Don’t take law into own hands over fence dispute

by admin | Feb 28, 2009 | 2009 Toronto Star Columns, Toronto Star Property Law Columns

Bob Aaron bob@aaron.ca The Ontario Court of Appeal has written what may well be the final chapter in what I call The Case of the $100,000 Fence. The case involved a dispute over a strip of land between two houses on Johnston Ave. near Sheppard and Yonge in North...

CBC MARKETPLACE – NEW HOME NIGHTMARES

by admin | Feb 24, 2009 | 2009 Toronto Star Columns, Toronto Star Property Law Columns

CBC MARKETPLACE – NEW HOME NIGHTMARES – Wendy Mesley (with Mike Holmes and Bob Aaron)

Harmonized tax would hit renovations, resales

by admin | Feb 21, 2009 | 2009 Toronto Star Columns, Toronto Star Property Law Columns

Bob Aaron bob@aaron.ca The already battered real estate industry had reason for concern when Premier Dalton McGuinty said last month that “we owe it to ourselves to take a good, long hard look” at harmonizing the GST with the Ontario provincial sales tax....

Licensed home inspectors make perfect sense

by admin | Feb 14, 2009 | 2009 Toronto Star Columns, Toronto Star Property Law Columns

Bob Aaron bob@aaron.ca British Columbia has become the first province in Canada to license home inspectors in order to protect buyers by ensuring qualified inspections. The B.C. model could well serve as a template for similar legislation in Ontario. In announcing the...

Beware of mortgage tax deduction claims

by admin | Jan 31, 2009 | 2009 Toronto Star Columns, Toronto Star Property Law Columns

Bob Aaron bob@aaron.ca Earlier this month, the Supreme Court of Canada issued a decisive ruling that clarifies once and for all that the interest paid on a mortgage taken out to purchase a principal residence cannot be tax deductible under any circumstances (unless...