Canadian Strata Fund Track Solutions

Avoid costly headaches and maximize the performance and value of your strata property with our 3 step process that includes inspections, reports and budgeting tools.

Property Management

Predictive Analysis: What Is It?

Some stories prey on your emotions. Some stories prey on your sense of justice. And then there are other stories that activate both of these responses. It’s hard to read the story behind this link without getting emotionally involved AND without wanting to scream that there IS a preventative option. Anyone who owns, Manages, or […]

Shopping for a New Home? Minimize Maintenance Fee Shocks if Looking at Condos.

Shopping for a Condo, or other Strata managed home? As a shopper, the following article will help. As a shopper, you should also ask for a Predictive Analysis. Give us a call to know more about how a Predictive Analysis provides so much more in addition to the Depreciation Report. https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/minimize-maintenance-fee-shocks-shopping-170605018.html Contact Us

Reactive vs Planned Maintenance – Cost Savings to Consider

We’ve posted many times about the need for Planned Maintenance in a Strata or Condo complex. What we want to do in this post is demonstrate, in real terms, how planned maintenance should be an obvious choice. The following example uses a building life span of estimated 80 years, with a focus on roof replacement. […]

Expertise Counts – How One Homeowner Saved Money through Expert Advice

Sometimes the best thing to do is to be or get your own expert. While TV shows and movies about the Legal profession portray ‘expertise’ as a competing industry in itself, there’s no doubt that we need someone ‘in the know’ from time to time. The story in the link below says a lot about […]

The Strata Act

As mornings go, this one started out in the usual way – breakfast, personal Internet searches, and then considering if the sun might deem itself to shine today. Since that last morning task still doesn’t look like it’s going to reap any benefits today, (sound of thunder claps) I turned to figuring out what topic […]

Canadian Strata Fund Track Solutions: A Reintroduction

Our company, Canadian Strata Fund Track Solutions (CSFTS) has been posting here for almost a year, and during that time we’ve examined many of the fundamentals that affect the day to day reality of living in a multi-family building. (Strata or Condo) Today we’re taking the opportunity to re-introduce who we are and what we offer: […]

Predictive Analysis: A Deeper Look

During the past year we’ve emphasized the importance of reducing costs through regular maintenance of key components of the buildings you call home. A recurring topic has been the services we offer through our Predictive Analysis (PA) report. Today we’ll give a more detailed summary of the PA, and in coming weeks drill down further […]

Strategizing Work Processes and Costs

We at Canadian Strata Fund track Solutions (CSFTS) know the challenges and issues that face Strata owners, Council Members, and Strata Managers.  We know that these things are unique to the Strata home owning and management culture. We also know that part of that culture could benefit from more efficient work processes that result in highly efficient cost management. Work […]

Disaster Recovery Planning and Predictive Analysis

I spent the majority of my career writing Disaster Recovery Plans (DRP) for Technology divisions of large corporations. (a DRP is a pre-written set of actions to take when a disaster makes your Tech operationsunable to function) The one thing I learned and observed more than any other factor, was that Tech overseers tend to not believe such […]