Ontario Question: Tenant slips and breaks the toilet by falling onto it. Water floods the place. She doesn’t know how to turn the water off. Whose insurance – ultimately who …
Carpet Stain Insufficient to Allow Buyer to Walk Away
In a recent case, the Divisional Court of Ontario had to hear an appeal from a case, where the Buyer claimed that she was not obligated to complete the transaction. …
Tenant Fails to Leave
(Ontario) Question: The Seller had a rather difficult Tenant and has sold the house, and has delivered the appropriate notices to the Tenant to terminate the tenancy. The Tenant has …
Toronto and GTA Markets in July 2022
This is the recently released report of the Toronto Regional Real Estate Board concerning the July 2022 results: “August 4, 2022 – There were 4,912 home sales reported through the …
Final Walkthrough
This presents problems whenever a Buyer might run into an uncooperative Seller, Listing agent or Seller’s solicitor. Only the Buyer can go through, not anyone else. It is realtively short …
Fundamental Difference (A very good reason for not closing)
There are essentially three justifications for not proceeding with a real estate transaction. Here’s a famous quotation about caveat emptor in Fraser-Reid (1980 SCC). “…..Notwithstanding new methods of house merchandising …