"All 80-year-old unit owner Joshua Frankel wants is a good night’s sleep. Sleep deprivation is no trifling matter." With these words in January, Justice R. Lee Akazaki began his 4,400-word ruling on a dispute between Frankel and York Region Condominium Corporation 664...
Case is a lesson for homeowners who did not buy title insurance when they bought their house, writes lawyer Bob Aaron, to arrange existing owner title insurance through their lawyers. A court decision released in January highlights the importance of homeowners having...
Faced with costs of thousands of dollars for each property, Lake of Bay residents responded with angry social media posts and letters to their councillors, Bob Aaron writes. In the wake of intense vocal opposition from local residents, the council of the Township of...
Opinion - Based on the author’s interpretations and judgments of facts, data and events. Nicholas Sutton has unsuccessfully tried for 14 years to sell this West Sussex mansion singer Adele once leased, writes Bob Aaron, after it gained a reputation as being haunted....
Want to avoid problems in your next real estate deal? Here are the top 10 issues in my experience that can lead to disappointment, unnecessary expense and even litigation in real estate agreements, in no particular order: Wrong unit I frequently see residential...
The “entire agreement” clause in a purchase contract, writes Bob Aaron, will always be a complete bar to any claims by a buyer for an innocent misrepresentation outside an agreement of purchase and sale. A decision of the Ontario Superior Court last summer is a...