Winter Walking and Cycling

[danbrotherston]

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.

Wow, thanks for the details.  As usual, reality is far more complex than one would guess.