345 W 16th Ave, Vancouver · Mount Pleasant
See the whole Mount Pleasant risk profile →345 W 16th Ave has been before the BC Civil Resolution Tribunal 1 times (2019–2019), 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Owners in a two-unit strata development had ongoing disagreements over necessary common area maintenance including roofing, walkways, and exterior painting, plus insurance matters. The tribunal required the strata corporation to engage a property manager to handle the repairs and insurance assessment, with expenses divided equally between the owners.
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.