by Erin Berney | Mar 23, 2022 | Featured, Legal Issues
The Court of Queen’s Bench of Alberta recently added to the growing case law on the issue of video surveillance in a decision called Lupuliak v Condominium Plan No 8211689, 2022 ABQB 65. Following a break-in of her main floor unit through the patio doors, the unit...
by James R.G. Cook | Mar 14, 2022 | Featured, Legal Issues
Cases arising out of the 2017 market correction in the Greater Toronto Area continue to result in decisions favouring innocent sellers and substantial damages awarded against defaulting buyers. In Rosehaven Homes v. Aluko, 2022 ONSC 1227 (CanLII), the buyers entered...
by REM Editorial Team | Mar 7, 2022 | Featured, Legal Issues
A couple contacted Avi Rosen, the paralegal I work with, regarding a situation between the husband and another woman living in the same co-op as them. One evening at the end of September, the husband was texting this woman and they were flirting with each other....
by James R.G. Cook | Feb 22, 2022 | Featured, Legal Issues
Some Canadian provinces have introduced a foreign buyers’ tax in recent years to curb what is perceived as the impact of foreign speculators on over-heated real estate markets. The hefty amount of the tax may catch unprepared buyers by surprise if they are not aware...
by Bob Aaron | Feb 8, 2022 | Featured, Legal Issues
A fair ruling or is it just downright batty? A colony of bats discovered by purchasers inside their home sparked a dispute that ended in a B.C. court with Judge Judith Doulis pronouncing it “an archetypical case of buyer’s remorse.” Emmeline and Kevin Van Geemen...
by Chris Seepe | Feb 4, 2022 | Featured, Legal Issues
Only two days after the worst snowfall in living memory in southern Ontario, where cities were draped with as much as two feet of heavy snow in just five hours (and which turned to ice a day later), bylaw officers were reportedly seen on the prowl taking photographs...
