819 Hamilton St, Vancouver · Downtown Vancouver
See the whole Downtown Vancouver risk profile →Eight One Nine has been before the BC Civil Resolution Tribunal 2 times (2019–2021), 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: $1,070.
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.
Deferred repairs and general upkeep. Minor on their own, but alongside structural cases they reinforce a picture of a building falling behind.
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.
Every tribunal decision linked to this building, newest first.
The owner was billed $845.46 for emergency drywall and moisture remediation work following water damage that originated from common property. The tribunal determined the strata corporation lacked proper bylaw authorization to impose these repair costs on the owner and directed removal of the charges plus reimbursement of tribunal fees.
The applicant sought $17,197.50 from the strata corporation for water damage repairs and lost rental income after a leak from common property affected their unit. The tribunal determined the strata corporation responded appropriately to the water leak and was not negligent, ruling that unit owners bear responsibility for repairs within their own strata lots.
Across 77 buildings, this manager has 29 tribunal cases on record — a dispute rate of 1.9 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.