01-15-2018, 05:13 PM
(01-15-2018, 04:04 PM)danbrotherston Wrote:(01-15-2018, 03:53 PM)chutten Wrote: So. Much. Win.
How expensive are shovels... This one at CanTire is ten bucks. Chain's about a buck a foot. Let's skip the chains and just buy twice as many shovels?
Or, for the price of four shovels per household per year, we could raise the tax revenue enough for the Cities to do it. *rage*
Speaking of crowd sourcing, though... I live in one of those places in the tri-cities that has a homeowners' association. I wonder how much we'd have to add to our membership fees to hire a service to clear the sidewalks... If it's a good enough idea for the city, maybe it's a good idea at the neighbourhood level as well.
Can anyone recommend a service? And a base service level? Someone on here _has_ to have worked this out or seen a successful contract before.
I'm surprised that we have "home owners associations" that don't clear snow.
Or is a HOA somehow different from a condominium corporation.
My understanding is that if one were setting up an HOA here now, one would instead use a common elements condominium — essentially, a condominium with no units, only common elements — or possibly a different type of condominium. But that concept didn’t exist when our HOAs were set up (like the Beechwood organizations that own and operate the pools) so it was done as a rider on the titles of the house lots in question.
What appears to be a good explanation of the types of condominiums in Ontario is here:
http://www.lerners.ca/lernx/types-of-condominiums/
Apologies if I’ve garbled any of the details but I’m reasonably sure this is substantially correct.