Real Estate Litigation Articles

Bob Aaron bob@aaron.ca June 23, 2001 City takes hit for shoddy Reno The Annex is a trendy area of older Toronto homes in the Bloor-Bathurst-Spadina corridor. Back in 1990, James Ingles and his wife Valerie Webb owned an 80-year-old Annex house at 123 MacPherson Ave....

Bob Aaron bob@aaron.ca June 16, 2001 Pizza person shut out Question: In our condo, the Board have rules that forbid fast food delivery people from going upstairs to units. Instead, they call from downstairs and tenants must go down to pick up the order. The Board...

Bob Aaron bob@aaron.ca June 16, 2001 Do we want to be like our southern neighbour? Proposed rule could encourage petty lawsuits Most standard homeowner insurance policies carry third-party liability coverage of $500,000 or $1 million. If someone is injured on the...

Bob Aaron bob@aaron.ca June 9, 2001 Wife may be on hook for co-signing loan Separate legal advice for couple and bank `bullet-proofs’ transaction It happens all the time. The husband is having financial trouble and applies to his bank for a loan. The bank approves the...

Bob Aaron bob@aaron.ca June 2, 2001 Ottawa to force lawyers to snitch on clients `Suspicious’ financial transactions must soon be reported What is the common factor in each of these scenarios? Paul and Joanne are buying a new house in Mississauga with help from...

This case will show you why. Last week, I received a strange telephone call from the client of another real estate lawyer. He explained he was in the process of buying a house and had just come back from his lawyer’s office. He was upset because his lawyer had asked...