Civil Resolution Tribunal
Please forgive me for ranting about the CRT. This summary of Trkla v. The Owners, Strata Plan KAS3099, 2020 BCCRT 533 is an example of how CRT adjudicators allow stratas to unlawfully transfer the cost of statutory repair obligations onto individual owners. You have to read with a critical eye the full decision (on CanLii) to realize how the adjudicator insidiously confuses matters and obscures his distortions of fact and law by creating a narrative that is contrary to the actual chronology of events. To unravel all that I rearranged the text to restore the true chronology, but I have left the adjudicator’s paragraph numbers for reference. 1. The owner sought reimbursement of water damage repairs, heat pump repairs, and loss of use of his property as well as an order that the strata comply with the SPA and avoid bullying (THIS CASE SHOWS HOW CONTRARY TO S.72 REPAIR OBLIGATIONS, THE CRT ALLOWS MONTHS OR YEARS OF CHRONIC DELAYS, ADDITIONAL DAMAGE, AND LOSS OF USE AND ENJOYMENT ...