Davidackerman
Active Member
stories and conversations about Tarion — Ontario Insurance for new homes and condos
If the purpose of this thread is to do marketing for Tarion, UT should think again. There are many great things about Tarion, but just as much many poor things which make consumers think they are being protected. I would hope that UT would contact the Tarion critics to get their viewpoints, politicians included. Lots of examples out there. I lived through a 3 year battle with Tarion, where both the Tarion lawyer and the developer's lawyer ganged up on us during a tribunal hearing that lasted an entire week.
Even after the judgement from the Tribunal where the judge told the developer that he was completely wrong and should never do this to consumers again, we had to go to court to get the developer to pay us because he still refused. We spent more lawyer fees in the end than we got "protection". If I did not have a high end lawyer, I would have been toast. This name brand developer is still selling condos.
Here is a recent story about others in the same boat:
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2013/07/06/star_investigation_homebuyers_not_getting_full_picture_from_protector_tarion.html