Hey Folks,
I hope you guys are enjoying your new building. I’m in a building downtown, but I have a cousin who bought one of the Wilshire on the Green units.
From what I’ve been hearing, you guys got a paralegal bully in your building who keeps harassing people to join her in a lawsuit against the builder. We had a guy like that in our building, also a paralegal who was doing the very same thing – I guess it’s a trend nowadays. Hey, in this economy, I guess everyone is looking to retire early.
We thought it would end upon registration; however, it only got worse. He got elected to the condo board and the harassment continued. He wanted to have all kind of stuff installed on the complex that would have jacked up the maintenance fee. In the end people started selling, one after the other. Buyers thought there were issues with the building and this led to lower property values for all of us as owners just wanted to get out and leave the mess behind.
Luckily for us, paralegals are now required to be licensed in Ontario and are regulated, along with lawyers, by the Law Society of Upper Canada.
http://www.lsuc.on.ca or 1-800-268-7568. By snail mail, Law Society of Upper Canada, Osgoode Hall, 130 Queen Street West, Toronto, ON M5H 2N6
Hence, we filed a complaint that resulted in him being disciplined – due to harassment (one resident was wired and taped all the interactions with him) and bad advice given to residents. He was also running a registered business in his unit; so, we complained to the Better Business Bureau (
http://mwco.bbb.org) and also started a lawsuit against his business for harassment of condo owners, incompetence - owing from the bad legal advice given to fellow condo owners and other issues. In the end, he became nervous about losing the lawsuit which would have led to him losing his unit. We dropped the lawsuit after he agreed to sell his unit and move out. The following week, residents held a big party until 4 am, in his “honourâ€.
Hope things get better over there.
Tim