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Turning Down the Volume – Understanding how to challenge nuisance noise to improve the quality of life for condominium residents

There are very few issues that impact the quality of life for residents in condominiums more than nuisance noise. Noise disputes between neighbours and external ...

Managing Risk When Changing Condominium Service Providers

Samsonshield / Riskboss has extensively reported on laws that directly affect condominiums during the procurement of service providers, those being ‘Bill 7’ (Legacy Employees) and ...

The Elephant in the Room

For years, there has been a lot of ongoing online debate on government imposed annual minimum wage increases in Ontario: good, bad, ugly, pro, and ...

Risky Business Condominiums & Illegal Short Term Rentals

The short term condominium rental market is not a new fad or phenomena. It has been around for decades in North America and given the ...

Protecting Condominium Residents & Site Personnel

Over the past few years tragic shootings and other aggressive incidents in condominium communities have changed the public psyche in the Greater Toronto Region (GTA). ...

Fire Safety Plan Box & Access Fob/ Key Thefts

Riskboss™ (www.riskboss.com) often receives alerts from the police services, government authorities and other agencies that may be of interest to residential condominium property managers and ...

The Key-in-Handle Door Lock – An Open Invitation to Thieves

Riskboss evaluators always find that residential suite doors in high rise buildings have high security deadbolt style locks, yet other keyed areas such as mechanical ...

Informed Consent – What Is It? When Should You Give It?

By Quintin Johnstone You are a property manager in a condominium or residential apartment building or even a commercial tower. You get a knock on ...

Bicycle Theft Season Commencing