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Ellsworth

209 E 7th Ave, Vancouver · Mount Pleasant

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Risk read
High · Governance & council conduct
1
decisions
20252025
span
6
issues
0/1
owner wins

What this building’s record shows

Ellsworth has been before the BC Civil Resolution Tribunal 1 times (20252025), surfacing 6 distinct issues across 5 categories. The dominant theme is governance & council conduct, and the highest-severity issue on record is rated high. Owners prevailed in 0 of 1 decisions; total awards on record: $0.

Each category below explains what that pattern means for a buyer, with the building’s own decisions as evidence.

Governance & council conduct

Elevated severity2 decisions

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.

Governance Issues · 1Special Assessment · 1

Water, envelope & structural

High severity1 decision

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.

Water Damage · 1

Building systems & safety

Elevated severity1 decision

Electrical, HVAC, elevators, and fire safety. Disputes here point to aging or contested infrastructure — confirm the status of major systems and whether any fire-safety orders are outstanding.

Plumbing Systems · 1

Common property & use

Elevated severity1 decision

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.

Boundary Issues · 1

Maintenance & upkeep

Low severity1 decision

Deferred repairs and general upkeep. Minor on their own, but alongside structural cases they reinforce a picture of a building falling behind.

Maintenance Deficiency · 1

The decisions

Every tribunal decision linked to this building, newest first.

2025 BCCRT 1165
2025-08-20Corporation upheld

A strata corporation sought $16,849.21 from a unit owner for plumbing damage costs from two separate water incidents. The tribunal ruled against the strata, determining the damaged pipes were in common property areas under strata maintenance responsibility, and found procedural failures in bylaw enforcement.

Who runs this building

Firstservice Residential

Across 1,141 buildings, this manager has 304 tribunal cases on record — a dispute rate of 1.2 per 100 units. 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.