3438 Vanness Ave, Vancouver · Renfrew-Collingwood
See the whole Renfrew-Collingwood risk profile →3438 Vanness Ave has been before the BC Civil Resolution Tribunal 2 times (2022–2024), surfacing 4 distinct issues across 4 categories. The dominant theme is water, envelope & structural, and the highest-severity issue on record is rated high. Owners prevailed in 1 of 2 decisions; total awards on record: $6,930.
Each category below explains what that pattern means for a buyer, with the building’s own decisions as evidence.
Water ingress, roof, and building-envelope failures are the most expensive problems a condo faces, and they’re what drive large special assessments. Structural cases on record are the strongest reason to commission an engineer’s review of the envelope.
How the corporation is actually run — records access, meetings, bylaw enforcement, transparency. Repeated governance cases signal a contentious or opaque council, and that colours every decision made about your money and your building.
Boundaries, parking, and renovation disputes — who controls and can alter shared space. Usually lower-stakes individually, but frequent cases show ongoing friction between owners and the board.
Deferred repairs and general upkeep. Minor on their own, but alongside structural cases they reinforce a picture of a building falling behind.
Every tribunal decision linked to this building, newest first.
The applicant successfully challenged charges totaling $6,548.82 for water damage repairs. The tribunal determined that the leaking pipe was located in common property within a shared wall, making it the strata corporation's responsibility rather than the former owner's.
The owner disputed voting methods and vote tallying at the 2020 annual general meeting, alleging the strata corporation improperly limited proxy voting and misallocated votes for commercial strata lots under the Strata Property Act. The tribunal found all issues moot since a 2021 AGM had occurred with new budget and council.
Across — buildings, this manager has — tribunal cases on record. A manager’s portfolio-wide rate is a signal of how they run buildings generally, beyond this one address.
Sourced from published tribunal decisions and analysed by PropTrust. Not legal advice. Verify with the corporation and a licensed professional before purchase.