by Bob Aaron | Feb 8, 2022 | Featured, Legal Issues
A fair ruling or is it just downright batty? A colony of bats discovered by purchasers inside their home sparked a dispute that ended in a B.C. court with Judge Judith Doulis pronouncing it “an archetypical case of buyer’s remorse.” Emmeline and Kevin Van Geemen...
by Bob Aaron | May 12, 2020 | Columnists, Featured, Legal Issues
The organization representing Ontario’s 70,000 Realtors has published four confusing and dangerous COVID-19 clauses for members to consider using in purchase agreements. The Ontario Real Estate Association (OREA) is an advocacy group for Ontario’s Realtors. It...
by Bob Aaron | Jan 7, 2020 | Columnists, Featured, Legal Issues
How does an interested buyer know if a home’s basement apartment is legal? And what information about basement apartments must real estate agents provide to buyers? Mohamed came to my office last month with an agreement to purchase a two-unit house in Kitchener, Ont....
by Bob Aaron | Sep 9, 2019 | Letters to the Editor
In the September issue of REM, Bill Johnston wrote that until April 1974, Ontario didn’t have a land transfer tax. The fact is that Ontario’s first Land Transfer Tax was introduced in 1921 and received Royal Assent on May 3 in that year. The rate was one-fifth of one...
by Bob Aaron | Nov 21, 2018 | Columnists, Featured, Legal Issues
What happens if a sales rep finds out that some visitors were having sex during an open house? Or worse, what happens if the sales rep is personally involved in some hanky panky during an open house? Real estate lawyers get asked all kinds of oddball questions. One of...
