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Chateau Comox

1272 Comox St, Vancouver · West End

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Risk read
Elevated · Financial disputes & fees
1
decisions
20232023
span
2
issues
1/1
owner wins

What this building’s record shows

Chateau Comox has been before the BC Civil Resolution Tribunal 1 times (20232023), surfacing 2 distinct issues across 2 categories. The dominant theme is financial disputes & fees, and the highest-severity issue on record is rated elevated. Owners prevailed in 1 of 1 decisions; total awards on record: $225.

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

Financial disputes & fees

Elevated severity1 decision

Special assessments and fee disputes hit owners directly — a single levy can run tens of thousands per unit. A pattern here means the building’s finances have been contested. Ask for the reserve-fund study and the levy history before you offer.

Condo Fees · 1

Governance & council conduct

Elevated severity1 decision

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 · 1

The decisions

Every tribunal decision linked to this building, newest first.

2023 BCCRT 54
2023-06-19Owner won$225

The owners disputed a strata bylaw imposing monthly natural gas user fees for their unit. The tribunal ruled that while strata corporations can charge such fees for common assets, this strata's fixed fee calculation approach lacked reasonable justification. The strata was directed to cease bylaw enforcement, return collected fees, and cover the owners' tribunal costs.

Who runs this building

Sterling Karamar Property Management

Across 66 buildings, this manager has 1 tribunal cases on record — a dispute rate of 0.01 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.