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Common Property: Understanding Your Maintenance Responsibilities

Do you live in a Condo/Strata? Do you understand your maintenance obligations? The following article, published November 20, 2021 in the Victoria Times Colonist, answers some of the misunderstandings and confusions associated with Strata/Condo living. Here’s the link: https://www.timescolonist.com/life/condo-smarts-stratas-walkways-driveways-and-backyards-are-common-property-4777055 Contact Us

Predictive Analysis: A Day 1 Necessity

We at Canadian Strata Fund Track Solutions (CSFTS) are driven by the goal to reduce negative surprises for Condo owners. We all live with surprises in life and the only constant seems to be change. But when you live in a Condo or any other type of managed home, peace of mind is what homeowners […]

Inflation and Your Strata Managed Home

There are so many ‘what ifs in life aren’t there? Let’s look at Inflation through the “what if” looking glass. What if you, as a Condo owner, could predict maintenance cost inflation, or Strata Fees inflation, or utility cost inflation, or Insurance, or, or, or…. The list could, and in fact does, go on and […]

What Can You See? Short Term Cost Avoidance Means Higher Cost Overall.

The Boss at our enterprise suggests that in all areas of our lives, there are three questions that, when honestly answered, create a bedrock of information that help us move forward in a positive manner. Those questions are In a recent post entitled “Inflation and Your Strata Managed Home,” we explored the “what if” proposition […]

Extended Lives: Understand the Expected Life Spans of Each System Component in Your Strata Managed Building

We talk a lot about planned maintenance versus waiting for things to break and enduring the surprise costs to fix. We talk about these two things because such surprises have the potential to totally disrupt a Strata homeowner’s life. Using the roof system of your building as a prime example, the accompanying picture shows the […]

The Small Stuff Doesn’t Have to Become the Big Stuff

Many of the visits we at CFSTS make to homes often turn into examinations and consultation of small incidental issues – the kind of issues that a homeowner may see as requiring expertise to assess and fix. We truly enjoy helping homeowners understand how the components of a building fit and work together. But driving […]

Integrity: Doing the Job Right From the Start

Sadly, Integrity is a word not in common use these days when describing work habits or professional demeanour. Too many companies reward an employee’s ability to get the job done without ever asking how achievements were attained. Many employers don’t really care about the “how” as long as the “done” appears. The ironic thing is […]

Relative Humidity and the Happy Family – Primer #5

If you think you may have a problem caused by Relative Humidity, we hope that this series of posts on the topic helps you to move forward. We sincerely hope you don’t get overwhelmed by the issue, because dealing with it using the tips we’ve discussed can lead to you being a happy rather than […]

Relative Humidity Primer #4

Relative Humidity and its role in your comfort level at your home is fairly straightforward, but also fairly deep and complex as far as the number of factors that should be considered, and the number of things you should look for and maintain properly. Last week we listed tips that will help ensure Exhaust Air […]

Relative Humidity Primer #3

If you’ve been following our series of posts about Relative Humidity (RH) ion the home, you’re now many steps ahead of most people in understanding why it’s so important to understand, and importantly, why you need to control it. So over the next 2 – 3 posts, we’re providing tips for homeowners for doing just […]