Is this illegal?

[dia1]

My condo has many maintenance workers but the common areas are sh**! Nothing ever gets repaired.

 

When pressing the condo about why the workers aren’t working in the common areas, the committee says bc they get calls every day to fix things in peoples room. And apparently they are fixing things for free. I never thought about this because I never called for maintenance.

 

Now the condo is increasing the CAM fee because they need more maintenance and are specifically citing work in private units. I can’t even believe the put it in writing

 

This seems like a violation of the condominium act as it specifically states that CAM fees are to be used to maintenance of common areas, staff salaries, regular expenses etc. Nothing about fixing stuff in ppls rooms for free. So my fees are subsidizing ppls rooms.

 

And to top it off, we have millions in the sinking fund, yet they are funneling some of the cam fees into the sinking fund without co-owner approval. So basically are cam fees are being squandered on free room maintence and locked into the sinking fund.

To top it off, they refuse to use the sinking fund when there are major repairs and then blow whatever CAM fee is accumulated on major emergency maintenance.

 

Am I right to cite this as multiple violations of the Condominium Act? I think the CAM fees should be using for common area maintence, the sinking fund should be used when there’s a major repair, and no free maintenance should be done in peoples rooms. Also the commitee should be getting approval from co-owners b4 dumping money into sinking fund, which they don’t. I mean unless I’m reading the condo act wrong ..

 

Im tempted to complain about this to the land department bc we never have money or workers for repairs in common areas and it’s driving me insane. Feels like total abuse and mismanagement 

[scubascuba3]

Depends what things they are fixing in the rooms, if it's pipes that may be under common fees. They should be charging for fixing, installing etc, mine does

[Peterw42]

The maintenance guys should only be working on common property, or as scuba says, common property that may be within a condo like pipes in ceiling.

It may be that the condo office is using the maintenance staff to run their own little handy man business, and  pocketing the funds. It can also be that the committee are part of the little enterprise.

Otherwise, its something that the committee should be sorting out.

[baansgr]

Take advantage of the free service when you require it 👍 

[dia1]

1 hour ago, baansgr said:

Take advantage of the free service when you require it 👍 

My room is property maintained, so I don’t require it. It just means I am paying for other co-owners personal repairs who do not property maintain their homew

[OneZero]

5 hours ago, Peterw42 said:

The maintenance guys should only be working on common property, or as scuba says, common property that may be within a condo like pipes in ceiling.

It may be that the condo office is using the maintenance staff to run their own little handy man business, and  pocketing the funds. It can also be that the committee are part of the little enterprise.

Otherwise, its something that the committee should be sorting out.

Also look for landlords who are encouraging & happy about getting free Maintenace for their business ventures.

Such landlords would also encourage use of common fees in ways which will enhance condo appeal & therefore easier rental for them - it can be way overdone, depending on the needs & lifestyle of the non-landlord owners.