Condo Smarts: Tony Gioventu pens 1,000th strata-living column
Weekly Homes columnist began helping readers with strata-living issues in November, 2002
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Weekly Homes columnist began helping readers with strata-living issues in November, 2002
The B.C. Human Rights Tribunal has ordered a strata to build a hillside elevator for a resident who can no longer manage the 102 steps from his home to the top gully in which his house sits — at a cost of $135,000.
A heated argument over a store sign snowballed into a workplace dispute involving multiple regulators, and now a tribunal has ruled an optical store owner in Oliver, B.C. must pay his former manager more than $70,000.
A B.C. couple can keep a therapy dog that's helped them cope with the loss of their grandson, despite pressure from their strata to ditch the animal for being too big.
Members are concerned we may end up with a vehicle that is not licensed or insured, and the strata corporation would be left with the liability of any claims if there was damage to our buildings.