{"id":14755,"date":"2017-10-24T01:00:54","date_gmt":"2017-10-24T05:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zoocasa.com\/blog\/?p=14755"},"modified":"2017-10-20T14:44:21","modified_gmt":"2017-10-20T18:44:21","slug":"can-you-be-forced-to-sell-your-condo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zoocasa.com\/blog\/can-you-be-forced-to-sell-your-condo\/","title":{"rendered":"Can You Be Forced to Sell Your Condo?"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the average detached home in Toronto selling for well over a million dollars and semis not far behind, for many wannabe homeowners, condos offer the only reasonably affordable option.<\/p>\n

But there are more than just condo fees that separate the two types of homeownership. As a condo buyer you should be aware that if you\u2019re a really lousy neighbour, in some \u2013 admittedly rare \u2013 circumstances, the condo board could force you to move.<\/p>\n

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Buyer Behave<\/h2>\n

The most common reason a condo board forces an owner to sell is for non-payment of condo fees. In that case, it\u2019s really no different than if you stopped making your mortgage payments and the bank forecloses on you.<\/p>\n

But in some rare cases \u2013 and we should emphasize that this is extremely<\/em> rare \u2013 condo boards can and have forced owners to sell and move out of their units because they\u2019ve been bad neighbours. Make that really<\/em> bad neighbours.<\/p>\n

Section 117 of Ontario\u2019s Condominium Act<\/a> stipulates a number of \u201cprohibited conditions and activities\u201d including causing damage to the property and \u201cany unreasonable noise that is a nuisance.\u201d<\/p>\n

Those prohibited activities sometimes include illegal stuff, such as turning a condo unit into a brothel or grow op<\/a>. But it could also mean repeatedly disrupting the peace and quiet your neighbours rightly expect. You\u2019re not going to get forced out just because your neighbour doesn\u2019t like you practicing the drums in the afternoon – but repeatedly pounding the kick drum and crashing the cymbals in the wee hours of the night would be construed as nuisance noise.<\/p>\n

The Forced Sale Process<\/h2>\n

Typically, what happens is that if a friendly visit asking the offending party to keep the noise down doesn\u2019t resolve the issue, annoyed neighours can ask the condo board to write a formal complaint letter. If the behaviour continues, a followup letter will be sent warning that legal action will be taken if the owner doesn\u2019t conform.<\/p>\n

If a situation is so extreme that the board does decide to seek legal action, the case will go before a judge who may issue a ruling that the person must stop the disruptive behaviours. If the person violates the judge\u2019s court order, that\u2019s when an order can be made forcing a sale.<\/p>\n

Extreme Cases<\/h2>\n

A few years ago, Antoni Casalinuovo, a lawyer who specializes in condo litigation, represented a condo board with an extremely bad resident. The owner would regularly host large \u2013\u00a0very large \u2013\u00a0parties, with dozens of guests. Bad enough, but things started to escalate when some of her guests barged into the communal party room and stole the balloons from a child\u2019s birthday party. After that, things just got worse. Much, much worse.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was UFC fight night in the hallways, people were walking around with baseball bats, there was a stabbing in one of the outdoor common areas, all kinds of crazy stuff\u201d says Casalinuovo. \u201cPeople were afraid to come out of their units,\u201d he adds, including an elderly couple in one of the adjacent units who \u201cfeared for their lives\u201d so much they decided to sell and move out of the condo they\u2019d lived in for decades.<\/p>\n

His firm had already filed paperwork seeking a court order to force the owner out when they got an unwanted cherry on top: a gun was fired inside the unit. When Casalinuovo appeared in court with various police reports and signed affidavits from the property manager and several owners listing the various offences, he says \u201cI didn\u2019t have to say much\u201d before the judge ruled that the owner had to sell.<\/p>\n

There have probably been less than 10 such cases in all of Canada in the past decade. But, as Casalinuovo concedes, \u201cwith the number of new condo units, mathematically it\u2019s going to happen more often.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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