colco: Expert, Specialist or Professional; How do you self-proclaim?
- 12/20/09 06:26 AM
At the most recent "Buyer Beware" seminar I was facilitating in Coquitlam, someone referred to me as an "expert"; they told me this because they thought I'm someone others look to when they want more information on homeowner issues. Do I really possess superior knowledge when this is not a topic I studied at school? Today I serve on the advisory council of Canadians for Properly Built Homes, and it's been 11 years since I co-founded the Coalition of Leaky Condo Owners (with Dr. James Balderson and others) but I'm still called almost weekly by someone wanting to find out something … (33 comments)
colco: What you should know before you agree to buy a condo
- 01/10/08 05:53 PM
This CBC Marketplace piece is a must see for any buyer considering a condo: http://www.cbc.ca/marketplace/2008/01/09/condo_crunch/ In 2001 I became distantly acquainted with Bob Aaron, a Toronto lawyer and homeowner champion. Bob says it like it is, "builders have sway, consumers don't" which just about says it all.Builders, developers (or sociopaths) or whatever you want to call them, "write the rules for themselves", and with a disregard for the rights of buyers.Bob started the CBC segment stating, "Consumer protection is horrible", and ex-agent, Charles Hanes, says he hasn't seen any "Condo Police".Who is supposed to be regulating to protect the Canadian home buying … (10 comments)
colco: About Leaky Condos: the truth...
- 01/07/08 05:13 PM
This is a follow up to this previous post which you might want to read as a backgrounder.The control of rain penetration relies on the exterior layer (the wall cladding) of the building envelope assembly to resist all rain penetration. This requirement has always been a requirement of the building code no matter what the envelope detail is.Well building envelopes didn't resist rain penetration, and this was clearly a case of widespread building code violations by the builders and the residential construction industry, and indisputably the main cause of leaky condos.Following the collapse of the New Home Warranty as a result of so many leaky condo claims, … (8 comments)
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At the most recent "Buyer Beware" seminar I was facilitating in Coquitlam, someone referred to me as an "expert"; they told me this because they thought I'm someone others look to when they want more information on homeowner issues.
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