What's not to like?

Despite our irreplaceable location and floor plan, there's plenty not to like.

The biggest thing not to like besides destructive acts akin to vandalism is the strata management team's repeated attacks on me causing personal injury. All of which is too unspeakable to articulate effectively, but I'm learning to live with it with some help from the following quotes.

Written by Andy Rooney, a man who had the gift of saying so much with so few words. Rooney has passed away but used to be on CBS's 60 Minutes TV show. http://yoursmiles.org/gsmile/flower1/g40253.gif

I've learned.... 

That everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it. 

I've learned.... 
That to ignore the facts does not change the facts.
 

Members of the strata management team repeatedly accuse me of harassment in Minutes and other permanent records because I complain about unlawful conduct and unfair treatment. When it comes to who is harassing who, I think that in the whole of the circumstances, particularly the persistence shown in the time frames, the material facts speak for themselves:

I drafted the letter below on July 30, 2016, but didn't deliver it to the recipient until the morning of the AGM on March 28, 2017. It would have remained an unpublished draft but for the March 8th Notice of the Annual General Meeting telling owners that:

“Circumstances developed to such a(n) extent that Marnie felt the need for her own personal safety to withdraw from council. We miss her.”

The circumstances that developed were that Marnie refused to perform her duties in holding the office of secretary. When she resigned, no appointment was made to fill the 8-month vacancy, despite willing volunteers who were apparent at the last AGM - and Georgia Title was allowed to hold all the power of the secretary and president in one hand.

The twisted report to owners in the AGM notice made me decide to deliver this letter and post a copy due to the ongoing injuries to my health and welfare from her attacks on me with false and disparaging accusations to the RCMP and threats to my safety intimidating me out of exercising my right to stage a sit-down protest against corrupt governance supporting unjust enrichment of Marnie and others acting in conflict on council.

409 - 1215 Lansdowne Drive, Coquitlam, BC V3E 2P2
dianne.bond@yahoo.ca, Phone: (604) 464 9642

July 30, 2016

Ms. Marnie Hennan

408 -1215 Lansdowne Drive
Coquitlam, BC V3E 2P2

Re: Freedom to Report on Oppression and Corrupt Governance

This is in response to your letter of resignation from the strata council that you delivered to me with a request that I remove any personal identification of you that is posted on my blog or other communication.

If you are no longer part of the strata management team, then your obligations under the Act have ended, and I have no further reason to rely on you for help or expect you to have any concern or interest in performing the statutory duties of a member of council. Accordingly, I will contact you no further without an invitation. On the other hand, you are welcome to come for tea whenever you feel comfortable. It's too bad we can't get to know each other in a more positive way than ganging up with Georgia Title and the RCMP to bully me out of constitutional protest rights with wrongful threats and intimidation. 

If there is anything about you posted in my blog that is erroneous I will correct it and apologize if you provide the necessary details. As it is, I have posted your request that I remove anything that identifies you, but I will not voluntarily cover up your role in making my life miserable. As far as I can see you’ve protected yourself more than enough by withholding or destroying strata correspondence while holding the office of secretary.

If you are not proud of your conduct or your failure to perform your statutory duty on council and are afraid to take responsibility, pay user fees, talk to me, or continue acting in conflict I accept that and hope council replaces you with someone who will perform the statutory duty of a member of council, but please, do not try to offload responsibility for your choices onto me. If you regret making misrepresentations for your own self interest, intimidating me with the police, disparaging me with personal attacks, and sickening me with active shunning you could easily admit it, correct your mistakes, and apologize. You might even feel better.

By promoting unjust enrichment and violation of enactments while refusing to enforce Bylaw 4 the strata management team has interfered with peaceful use and enjoyment of Unit 409 for decades, and this has been devastating for myself and my husband. If you want reasonable neighbour relations in the community, then admitting the truth and acting honestly to advance the remedy and suppress the mischief would accomplish that more, at least in my opinion, than ongoing self-deception, misrepresentations, and personal attacks - or throwing a tantrum and blaming it on me.

Dianne Bond

When it comes to fairness, bullies overpower victims...
When it comes to credibility, the privileged dishonour the oppressed...
When it comes to justice, the rich crush the poor...
AND when it comes to the future of the world... greed trumps brains.

People who don't share my views say I'm crazy, but I see problems
I try to change what can be changed,
accept what can't be changed,
and have the wisdom to know what's reasonable.

Negligence that puts lives at risk is easy to correct.

Reinstating lighting and unit numbers to allow emergency vehicles to find their way through the complex at night has been a problem for nearly a decade - but need never have been created.

I don't know if Grace Boswell died in the dark at night, but I do know that seconds can mean the difference between life and death in a rescue, and everyone is endangered when half the lights are out because bulbs are not replaced or timers are improperly set.

I also know that a paramedic nearly fell on dark stairs by Unit 409's driveway and that, in view of the line of travel, changing the location of half the unit numbers added significantly to the difficulty in finding addresses, in daylight and darkness both.

Oppression, corruption, and unjust enrichment in governance are more difficult to correct than exterior lighting.

Complaints of negligence are called harassment, reports of misconduct are called malicious, trees are destroyed in response to challenges to authority, and protests against unfairness are met with retaliation, including vandalism, character assassination, and fraudulent misrepresentations to police - these are just a few examples of how my life at home turned into a living hell. 



I've been living in hell for more than a decade while others attack - or watch without objection.

Even though owners complained to council repeatedly, there is no record of any bylaw enforcement against Al MacLeod conducting business activities from his strata lot in violation of the strata bylaws, even after strata management notified the strata corporation of the conflict in interest issues and how harmful the effect. 

In his business activities Mr. MacLeod attracted pedestrian and vehicular traffic to the complex in violation of strata parking bylaws and business restriction bylaws, and his acting in violation of conflict of interest bylaws for 10 years was instrumental in creating a legacy of:

• misconduct and cover-ups
• incomplete water damage repairs to Unit 409: www.sunridgeflood.blogspot.com
• illegal construction activities
• unfair allocation of funds
• diversion of special levy funds
• loss of peace and enjoyment
• revolving door strata management
• council members quitting
• strata management companies quitting
• unauthorized destruction of landscaping, followed by:
• landscape architect quitting
• common property looking like a war zone
• more than a 4-year wait without landscaping
• reduced property values
• oppression driven sales
• increased maintenance
• geotechnical issues, including
• suddenly sinking buildings
• cracking walls
• cracking pavement 
• breaking underground pipes...
• repeated geotechnical repairs...
• patched pavement all over the complex
• extraordinary costs in untold amounts ...
• perpetual strife
• more sales and
• all kinds of lawyer fees

I hoped these disputes could be resolved by sharing information and the strata council talking about the problem and complying with their responsibilities but instead owners are deprived of strata records by strata council members and/or strata managers who: 

• are remiss in recording decisions
• delete strata records to hide misconduct
• thwart disclosure with prohibitive and unauthorized fees
• make fraudulent misrepresentations, which include
• pretending that deleted material was provided
• omitting evidence specifically requested
• unreasonably stuffing copies with tons of extraneous pages
• manufacturing contrived privacy issues
• manufacturing work, irrelevantly redacting hundreds of unrequested forms

For example, just before strata manager Joan MacDougall was separated from her employer, she spent a whole day making 900 copies of useless material that I did not request, while continually ignoring my requests for copies of insurance policies, professional contracts, and defamatory email records and evidence of her own misconduct that I very specifically needed and did request; finally telling me that she deleted the strata’s correspondence that was carried by email.

What's not to like about all this?
Well for one thing, the cumulative stress is damaging, so much so that I can no longer function efficiently and effectively enough to work as a paralegal. Delivering papers is good exercise but it's no way to earn a living.

Adrienne Murray, the strata lawyer, acted unreasonably and supported misconduct by individuals acting in conflict, thwarted the disclosure provisions of the Strata Property Act, gave credence to misrepresentations, and contributed to oppression in the strata corporation in reckless disregard of material facts, writing to me on June 19, 2007 saying,

“in response to your request for copies of Strata Corporation documents... on December 18, 2006 the Strata Corporation made over 900 copies of documents... so that the personal information. could be blacked out... you took only approximately five pages of correspondence... At the hearing you again asked for correspondence made available to you on December 18, 2006... the Strata Corporation will not instruct Bayside to respond to your demands for documents and information unless you are willing to pay for the time that Bayside must spend gathering and reviewing documents, making copies and redacting personal information from correspondence, and having an employee sit with you while you review the files and documents of the Strata Corporation... Bayside will cbarge their time at $6O/hour exclusive of GST. Additionally. as provided for under the Regulation to the Strata Property Act, a photocopy charge of S.25/page will apply for all copies that are made for you. If you request correspondence for a period of time, you will be provided with copies of all correspondence for that time frame. The correspondence will be reviewed and personal information will be redacted. You will be required to pay both the hourly rate and the photocopy charge for each letter or email. You will be required to pay the photocopy cost whether or not you choose to take the documents away with you.”

In my opinion this provides further evidence that damage to the common assets in this 25-million dollar strata complex from misconduct amounts to a compensable loss to the strata corporation - of an estimated million dollars - or more. Strata management and owner turnover, as well as economic hardship and distress sale prices in the years since the building envelope project are alarming - the direct costs and indirect losses to owners are staggering.

Contrary to legislation strata management and lawyers:

• withhold records 
• act in a conflict of interest
• lack good faith
• distort facts and 
• violate trust

My husband and I paid about $100,000 in special assessments for strata lot 25 and lost the original function of our exterior water taps and patio, as well as valuable landscaping and the quiet use and enjoyment of our property by the uncontrolled, unauthorized, unremedied actions of a corrupt few. Doing the math shows some of the pure economic loss - but not the environmental detriment, harm to health, or future damages - nor the devastating impact on people's lives.

Destruction of common property:

loss of trees and erosion of sensitive slopes

followed by underground pipes bursting for years



exposing to building interiors to direct view - loss of privacy, loss of enjoyment













rooftops












and buildings














RELATED LINKS:
http://www.qp.gov.bc.ca/statreg/stat/S/98043_05.htm#section71
http://www.choa.bc.ca/members/pdf/200/200-049%20Tree%20Removal.pdf
http://www.climatecrisis.net/

repeatedly wasted money


















geotechnical problems and breaking pavement














breaking water mains














patched pavement from breaking underground pipes














5 years and counting of soul crushing views













http://www.realtylink.org/hpi/rebgvhpistats.cfm?date=0407&TYPE=buyers
http://www.royallepage.ca/CMSTemplates/AskRLP/Buying/HousePricingSearch.aspx
http://www.bcassessment.bc.ca/asba/index0.aspx
water pipes not extended to accommodate the rainscreen assembly.















Defective design of replacement door to swing-out style that wastes 30 inches of essential deck space and blocks access from the sliding doors in the dining room.


















requests for a remedial deck extension bypassed repeatedly since 2001




















Special levy funds diverted from landscaping to reconstruct illegally added extra decks IN SPITE OF the strata bylaws and owners' direction to council at the 2007 AGM that any individual owner who benefits from a deck addition pay the extra costs associated with its existence, or the deck would be removed













leaving years of bare dirt













while buildings sink

leaving floors sinking and walls cracking













insurance premiums paid - deprived of protection



















Conflict of interest - 518's fireplace on December 28, 2004











































$5,885 payment to Safeguard Mechanical Ltd. on July 15, 2005 re repining/firing (sic) of Al Macleod's fireplace and another $139.10 on December 16, 2005 re 518 - check fireplace














increased hazards of personal injury and fire














lower curb appeal - lower property values















persistent misconduct...council prohibited these trees














Al Macleod obstructing the firelane directly opposite our driveway
 Unit 409's 2010 landscaping on the first day of spring