Real Estate Litigation Articles

Bob Aaron bob@aaron.ca Unfortunate ruling for home-buying public The Granite Gates community is in the picturesque Sawmill Valley area of Mississauga. It was marketed in the early 1990s as a multi-phased condominium development. Each phase would have a different style...

Bob Aaron bob@aaron.ca March 17, 2001 Using kit to write will can be risky Litigation lawyers get big bucks to sort out mess A client called last week to say she had just purchased a do-it-yourself will kit for herself and her husband after hearing it advertised on...

Bob Aaron bob@aaron.ca March 10, 2001 Condo or co-op? Co-op units cheaper but with few safeguards A client called me last week to say that her son was leaving the family nest and looking for a place of his own. Since condominiums were beyond the family budget, their...

Bob Aaron bob@aaron.ca March 3, 2001 Why racist restrictions no longer apply in land deals < Today, anyone can buy a house, but it wasn’t always that way When London, Ont. lawyer Edward Richmond died in January at the age of 80, he left behind a a legacy which...

Bob Aaron bob@aaron.ca February 24, 2001 Beware the `Oklahoma’ swindle Buyer rebate scam is not legal Last month in this column, I wrote about the "Oklahoma" swindle, a scam where the purchase price of a house is artificially inflated by a device like a kickback of...

Bob Aaron bob@aaron.ca February 17, 2001 Cement case hard to work out   For 137 people in eastern Ontario, the purchase of their homes was the realization of a dream. For some it was their first home, and for others it was their retirement home. None of them could...

Bob Aaron bob@aaron.ca February 8, 2001 Should homeowner pay off mortgage or invest in RRSP? It’s RRSP season, and, judging from the avalanche of promotional hype, it may seem there’s only one choice for Canadians: invest as much as you can afford into a Registered...

Bob Aaron bob@aaron.ca February 2, 2001 Who’s liable if dog bites? Home or auto insurance should cover legal damages In the 25-plus years I have been living in the same house, no four-legged creature ever crossed the threshold – until last month. Succumbing to a...

Bob Aaron bob@aaron.ca January 26, 2001 `Oklahoma swindle’ is just plain real estate fraud Inflating purchase price on home sale is illegal What should you do when your real estate agent suggests something that sounds just a bit suspicious? That was the dilemma Mike...

Bob Aaron bob@aaron.ca January 18, 2001 In pursuance of plain English, forthwith It’s time for lawyers and contracts to use plain English One of the worst examples of outdated legal writing style today is the document most familiar to the home-buying public – the...