189 E 16th Ave, Vancouver · Mount Pleasant
See the whole Mount Pleasant risk profile →189 E 16th Ave has been before the BC Civil Resolution Tribunal 1 times (2020–2020), surfacing 3 distinct issues across 3 categories. The dominant theme is governance & council conduct, and the highest-severity issue on record is rated elevated. 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.
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 owner of a commercial strata unit sought compensation from the strata corporation for alleged failures to maintain exterior signage lighting and replace a parkade gate. The tribunal determined the strata corporation responded appropriately by coordinating repairs with building improvements and following expert recommendations for gate replacement timing, rejecting claims totaling $15,000.
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.