05-22-2020, 07:47 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-22-2020, 07:49 PM by panamaniac.)
(05-22-2020, 07:26 PM)danbrotherston Wrote:(05-22-2020, 04:22 PM)panamaniac Wrote: If the townhouses on private roads are freehold, there there would be a homeowners' association that would be responsible for things like snow-plowing and maintenance of common areas. That's the sort of arrangement that my development has.
I wouldn’t call a townhome or house with an HOA freehold either, AFAIK in Ontario a condo corporation is more or less the same thing as an HOA. Or to put it another way, the condominium act governs condominium corporations which are legislated to manage common property, ergo they are just called condos. But it’s possible there are other forms of common property management in that I am unaware of. I don’t think freehold has a precise definition but I wouldn’t use it to describe any property with additional levels of common property management below that of the city government. It’s possible that the units facing the road are different from the interior ones, or it is possible that my friend has a different definition of freehold.
No, a condominium corp is governed by specific Provincial legislation. An HOA is governed only by the reciprocal agreement that created it.