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SchlongConery

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Just out of interest, would like to know if the humming and vibrations he complained of coming from the electrical room underneath his apartment really existed. Why would an electrical room be under his apartment? What would cause the noise and vibrations? Will the next tenant/owner of his apartment experience the same problems?

If you live in a subdivision, go up to one of those big green Hydro transformer boxes and put your hand on it. You will feel it vibrates with a dull hummmmmmm. At 60Hz. Your doorbell AC transformer is the same.

That transformer might serve 20 houses.

A condo transformer room contains 1 or 2 HUGE transformers that serve as many as 500 condos. Plus the chiller, pumps etc. When you go into that room or "Vaujlt" you can hear it humming.

Most condos are made of concrete which conducts sound to some degree. Developers keep cutting corners and one area is to not isolate the mechanical equipment adequately. So fans, pumps, elevator motors and massive air conditioning chillers can transmit sound and vibration into adjacent units.

In my building, a malfunctioning 400 Ton Chiller (central air conditioning) transmitted a weird oscillatiing sound through the glass curtain wall into my second bedroom 5 floors below. It transmitted a harmonic resonance that was only audible in that one room and only on my floor. The glass wall/window acred as a speaker membrane and amplified the sound.

Fortunately, the malfunction was readily identified, fixed and the sound went away.

Our building spent over $100k engineering and implementing sound and vibration mitigation measures to stop the sound of the elevators going past certain suites.

Some Boards have ignorant and cheap Directors and won't spend money for fear of commiting the Cardinal Sin of Condo's... "raising the fees"
 
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SchlongConery

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Likely was in the disclosure when he bought the condo. As soon as he put his signature to it, all liability was gone. I just asked a real estate buddy this.

Not if he bought it new and it was a latent defect.

And if he bought it as a resale and the Manager did not include it in the Status Certificate, the Corporation is liable. But they will fight like hell, using the condo owners money on expensive condo lawyers.
 
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Actually i wonder if it wasn't. Either way there is a human failure here by the condo borad to address a very real health and safety issue not just for this tenant but others in the area as well. This is their job.

You are absolutely right sir. Legally, fiduciairily and morally.

Condo Boards attract some of the biggest, ignorant asshole Directors you can't even begin to imagine.

And the good Directors and Managers are subject to such abuse from ignorant, self-entitled assholes. I get asked all the time to sit on Boards where I own and no fucking way. Not for any amount of money.
 
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It likely never existed except for in his mentally deranged mind. The maintenance people were probably in there multiple times and didn't hear anything out of the ordinary.































This asshat is dead. Good riddance .














Why actually read the articles when instead you can just post the wrong information, while at the same time pretending like your ridiculous opinions are facts
 

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Actually they did. News reports show two separate inspections, one city, one paid for by the condo showed clear problems with toxic fumes, electromagnetic waves, and constant noise(fans going off every hours, 24 hours a day).

The board chose not to fix it.
So he had a point.
 

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So he had a point.
It apoears so. And that things escalated from fixing things to getting personal.

From what I read a bunch of this occured during the pandemic lock downs which no doubt didn't help. I took 8 months from the city inspection to the environmental study to be done.

But then the board still did nothing it appears. But It should also be added finding conteactors right now is a bit ridiculous. Especially for smaller jobs. But I'm finding it difficult to think they couldn't get on in two years.
 

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There is noise everywhere. No escape.

Changing houses/condos just means there will be new sources of noise, unless you are lucky.

In reality, that's the truth.

But there is a legal principle that is in all Condominium Declarations and Rules that give you the right to "Quiet Enjoyment". Nobody has the right (including the Condo Corp) to create a noise that enters your unit such that it interferes with your "quiet enjoyment".

In fact, Sect 117 of the latest Condo Act is even more specific.

Prohibited conditions and activities
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(1) No person shall, through an act or omission, cause a condition to exist or an activity to take place in a unit, the common elements or the assets, if any, of the corporation if the condition or the activity, as the case may be, is likely to damage the property or the assets or to cause an injury or an illness to an individual. 2015, c. 28, Sched. 1, s. 102.

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(2) No person shall carry on an activity or permit an activity to be carried on in a unit, the common elements or the assets, if any, of the corporation if the activity results in the creation of or continuation of,

(a) any unreasonable noise that is a nuisance, annoyance or disruption to an individual in a unit, the common elements or the assets, if any, of the corporation; or

(b) any other prescribed nuisance, annoyance or disruption to an individual in a unit, the common elements or the assets, if any, of the corporation. 2015, c. 28, Sched. 1, s. 102.
 

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Why actually read the articles when instead you can just post the wrong information, while at the same time pretending like your ridiculous opinions are facts

Welcome to TERB!

My extended sickness has led me to spend too much time on TERB and I'm getting to the point where I am realizing there are just too many ignorant people, reincarnating themselves, with multiple handles etc spewing nonsense. I'd like to see if I have the discipline to quit posting.

Probably not. Besides, there are more than a few really good, intelligent guys (and gals) on here that make it interesting and enjoyable.
 

SchlongConery

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It apoears so. And that things escalated from fixing things to getting personal.

From what I read a bunch of this occured during the pandemic lock downs which no doubt didn't help. I took 8 months from the city inspection to the environmental study to be done.

But then the board still did nothing it appears. But It should also be added finding conteactors right now is a bit ridiculous. Especially for smaller jobs. But I'm finding it difficult to think they couldn't get on in two years.

Boards know about a LOT of health and safety issues that they deliberately and wilfully ignore. For years. Many Property Managers quit after putting the Board on notice, to no avail.

Most of these Directors are layman that think they will "whip things into shape" and "get the fees down".

Then they realize that they are in wayyyyy over their heads and all they know how to do is renovate the Lobby and Hallways. One of the most corrupt sectors of the Condominium industry in Ontario. The Albanian Mafia, seriously, control much of it and use cash bribes as secret commission to Managers, District Managers, Directors to launder money through inflated fixed bids.

This case is just the tip of the iceberg. They haven't even got close to the Albanians.


Multiple companies and their owners charged with conspiracy to commit fraud and rig bids for condo refurbishment contracts in the GTA
From: Competition Bureau Canada
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March 29, 2021 - GATINEAU, QC - Competition Bureau
The Competition Bureau announced today that it has laid multiple criminal charges against four companies and three individuals in connection with an alleged conspiracy to commit fraud and rig bids for condominium refurbishment services in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA).
The following companies and individuals have each been charged under the Criminal Code with conspiracy to rig bids, conspiracy to commit fraud, and fraud over $5,000:
  • TRI-CAN Contract Incorporated and owner Bob Vlahopoulos;
  • JCO & Associates (912547 Ontario Inc.) and owner Jose De Oliveira; as well as
  • LAR Condominium Refurbishment Specialists (Lidio Romanin Construction Company Limited) and owner Tony Romanin.
A fourth company, CPL Interiors Ltd., was charged under the conspiracy provision of the Competition Act for its role in the alleged scheme.
The Bureau alleges that the accused conspired to commit fraud and rig bids for refurbishment contracts issued by private condominium corporations in the GTA between 2009 and 2014. The condominium corporations and the condominium owners who fund them are the alleged victims. Generally speaking, bid-rigging schemes result in victims paying higher prices for goods and services.
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“Criminal conspiracies that undermine competitive markets can cause extreme damage to our economy. The message should be loud and clear: if you enter into criminal agreements with your competitors, we will do everything in our power to uncover the facts and bring the evidence to court.”
Matthew Boswell
Commissioner of Competition
 

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"No person shall carry on an activity or permit an activity to be carried on in a unit, the common elements or the assets, if any, of the corporation if the activity results in the creation of or continuation of,

(a) any unreasonable noise that is a nuisance, annoyance or disruption to an individual in a unit, the common elements or the assets, if any, of the corporation; "


Sounds good in theory but hard to enforce in practice. A good start is to ban pianos, drums, stereos, guitars (especially when connected to an amplifier), etc. They are or can be really noisy.

Then there are also barking dogs, crying babies, etc.
 

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The Star Dec 19, 2022

Vaughan gunman, 73, feuded with condo board over ‘electromagnetic waves.’ Victims include three board members
The condo board at the Vaughan highrise had filed a restraining order against Francesco Villi’s “allegedly threatening, abusive, intimidating and harassing behaviour,” according to court documents.
By Alessia PassafiumeStaff Reporter
May WarrenHousing Reporter
Jennifer PagliaroCrime Reporter
Noor JavedStaff Reporter
Betsy PowellCourts Reporter
Mon., Dec. 19, 2022timer8 min. read

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A rare and “horrific” mass shooting in a Vaughan condo that left six people dead, including the shooter and a condo complex shaken followed a years-long, publicly-documented dispute between the shooter and the building’s board of directors amid constant concerns from neighbours about his mental state.
The legal fight was expected to come to a head on Monday at a hearing where the condo corporation was requesting 73-year-old Francesco Villi vacate his unit temporarily as his alleged harassment continued.


The shooting at the high-end Bellaria Towers complex on Sunday night left six people dead, including 73-year-old Francesco Villi, who was gunned down by a police officer.
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Investigators believe Villi, using a semi-automatic handgun, is responsible for the murders at the high-end Bellaria Towers complex.
In his wake: Families traumatized by the sudden, yet-explained loss of loved ones during the holiday season, residents reeling after heavily-armed officers rushed through the building to confront the shooter and safeguard units, and a surviving board member unable to reach his colleagues — police said three victims were members of the board.
“I messaged and tried to call them and they didn’t call back,” said current board member Tony Cutrone when reached by the Star Monday.


After the shooting, police officers “came in with rifles” to the unit he owns for his elderly mother “looking for me making sure I was OK,” he said. His mom called him to ask what was going on, which is how he learned of the attack.
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“We realize a crime of this magnitude is traumatizing for friends and family who at this time of year especially now must deal with the tragic death of their loved ones,” said York Regional Police Chief Jim MacSween at a Monday afternoon news conference held at the service’s Aurora headquarters.
Little is known about the victims, three men and two women, who police said all lived in the building on Jane St. near Rutherford Rd. in Maple. Another woman, aged 66, was “seriously injured” but is expected to survive. According to a provincial registry, the condo board has five active members.
Though police are still investigating a motive for the murder, Villi’s ongoing confrontations with the condo board were well documented in a prolific string of disturbing social media posts, legal back-and-forth and emails with city officials that detailed his unsubstantiated belief board members were trying to kill him.
The man’s complaints dated back at least five years, according to email correspondence with city officials obtained by the Star.
In a letter written by Villi dated 2018, Villi said it was his “opinion” that the building had not been thoroughly inspected during construction. And in an attached blueprint showing part of the service room, he had handwritten his complaints in shaky, capital letters: “This has caused me a lot of harm. 4 years. This electrical room was not built per this approved (drawing)!?” and “Done nothing.”
The emails show that both city of Vaughan bylaw officers and fire inspectors had visited his condo in both 2017 and 2019 and found no concerns. In 2019, a by-law officer noted the service room was dirty as the result of a recently installed exhaust fan to minimize noise, and ordered it to be cleaned. After the condo corporation complied, the file was closed.
In one email from Vaughan’s former fire chief, it was said a police mental health unit was involved but “he refused any additional services.”
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Still, Villi persisted to publicly rail against the board, the buildings’ developers and related lawyers through his social media posts, despite a judge’s order that he refrain from doing so.
The posts are littered with Christian iconography and references, often beginning with an unintelligible string of mathematical symbols and emojis. He often wrote, in vague language, about “freedom of speech” and “justice,” while calling out those who he took issue with. Pictures posted this November show what looks like a doctor’s note stating Villi had “chronic obstructive lung disease” alongside what appears to be multiple photos of bloody phlegm. He complained of the floor vibrating, his bed trembling and a lack of sleep.




In several selfie videos, Valli can be seen questioning lawyers who are trying to schedule mediation between him and the board and asking them whether they know God while claiming board members were “murdering” him for “self-interest and money”.
“They have harmed me enough for seven years,” he said in one video posted several hours before the shooting, but in which he says was filmed Dec. 13.
“They want me dead.”
Legal proceedings between Villi and the condo corporation date back to at least November 2018 when the corporation filed an application to “restrain Mr. Villi’s allegedly threatening, abusive, intimidating and harassing behaviour towards the Corporation’s board of directors, property management, workers and residents of the condominium,” a recent court decision outlines.
The following year, in June 2019, Villi filed his own lawsuit “relating to issues stemming from an electrical room beneath his unit and also relating to alleged oppressive conduct on the part of the corporation.”
Villi claimed several million dollars in documents filed without legal counsel. In his statement of claim, he makes a wild series of unsubstantiated allegations, including that he believed condo board members were trying to intentionally harm him. Those claims, against three currently listed condo board members and three others, were dismissed by a judge this past August as “frivolous and/or vexatious.”
Among other things in the suit, Villi alleged that the defendants had committed “‘Acts of Crime and Criminality’ from 2010 onwards” and that the electrical room below his unit was improperly constructed and electromagnetic waves had caused him pain and suffering over several years. Villi believed the board was acting on behalf of the “powerful developer” who built the condo complex.
He alleged the defendants were “deliberately causing harm, stress physically, mentally, financially, confusion inability to rest and sleep for over 5 years, torment, torture that cannot be explain (sic) in words.”
Villi’s claim offered “a complete absence of material facts pleaded in support of any of the claims raised,” the judge found, ordering him to pay $2,500 in legal costs.
In October 2019, a judge ordered Villi “to refrain from recording board members, management, residents, or employees of the Corporation, to refrain from making social media posts about the proceedings and to only communicate with the Corporation in writing, except in an emergency.” He was found in contempt of the orders in September 2021 for communicating with corporation staff and he was ordered to pay $29,500 to the condo.
Villi was scheduled to appear in a Newmarket court Monday as part of ongoing litigation.
The defendants were asking the judge to expand the previous judge’s order about communicating with or filming board members, employees and residents and, in addition, “an order directing the plaintiff to move out of his unit in the condominium and remove all of his personal belongings from the condominium’s premises within 30 days of this order until the main proceeding is concluded or disposed of.”
Though Villi originally complied with the 2019 order, he began breaching it again in April 2022, court documents say.
“The Plaintiff has now also started harassing residents by swearing at them and taking photographs of them without their permission,” states the notice of motion, dated Aug. 23, 2022.
“The Plaintiff has intentionally failed to comply with the Order. The condominium and its legal counsel have asked the plaintiff to comply with the Order on numerous occasions but the breaches have continued.”
It went on to say expanding the order was necessary “due to Mr. Villi’s new problematic behaviour.”
“As a result of the Plaintiff’s disruptive behaviour, the condominium is at risk of losing valuable employees. The Plaintiff is creating a hostile work environment which the condominium cannot continue to permit. The Plaintiff’s behaviour and breaches of the Order are preventing the Condominium from managing its affairs.”
But shortly after the registrar opened the zoom proceeding Monday, Superior Court Justice Mary Vallee indicated the case would not be going ahead.
“I normally say ‘Good morning everyone’ but this is not a good morning,” Vallee told court.
Megan Mackey, the lawyer representing the condo board, told the zoom proceeding that the motion wasn’t proceeding and it would be stayed.
“I’m told Mr. Villi was shot and killed last night,” she said.
Residents of the condo also had ongoing concerns about their neighbour, who purchased his first-floor unit in 2014.
Cutrone, the current board member, said he became part of the board in part because his mother — for whom he owns a unit — had been bullied by Villi in the past.

Recalling his and his mother’s experiences with Villi, Cutrone, who works as a real estate agent, described him as “ill” and said he had offered to find him a place at a care home.
“I knew he was a problem, but I didn’t think he was murderous,” Cutrone said.
Resident John Santoro said he had been on the condo board for about a year, five years ago and remembered Villi’s complaints, including about the electrical system.
Speaking to reporters outside the building, Santoro described Villi as “not a monster,” and said he thought he needed “professional help.”
“I commented to my wife several times it’s going to end very badly,” Santoro said.
On Sunday, he said he “heard a commotion in the corridor” and opened his door to officers with “rifles right outside my door in the elevator lobby.”
A tactical unit came in later around 10:30 to 11 p.m. to clear the building, he said.
(Neither Santoro nor Cutrone are listed in Villi’s most recent lawsuit.)
In a press conference Monday afternoon, the police chief, MacSween, called the shooting “horrific” and named Villi as the shooter. He provided few details about the victims, saying the office of the chief coroner was not yet ready to release their identities.
In a statement briefly posted online Monday, the Amalgamated Transit Union, Local 113 Toronto, said that Doreen DiNino, wife of union president and condo board member John DiNino, is a surviving victim of the mass shooting.
“We are grateful to learn that she has survived this horrific incident and is undergoing emergency surgery today,” the union wrote, before later deleting the statement.
A 24-year-veteran of York region police is now the subject of a Special Investigations Unit probe after they shot and killed Villi on the third floor of the building. That officer “very likely saved lives by his actions last night,” said the chief, not identifying the officer. The police watchdog investigates all cases of serious harm and death involving police.
With files from Alexandra Harvey and Wendy Gillis
 

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Multiple companies and their owners charged with conspiracy to commit fraud and rig bids for condo refurbishment contracts in the GTA
From: Competition Bureau Canada
News release

March 29, 2021 - GATINEAU, QC - Competition Bureau
The Competition Bureau announced today that it has laid multiple criminal charges against four companies and three individuals in connection with an alleged conspiracy to commit fraud and rig bids for condominium refurbishment services in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA).
The following companies and individuals have each been charged under the Criminal Code with conspiracy to rig bids, conspiracy to commit fraud, and fraud over $5,000:
  • TRI-CAN Contract Incorporated and owner Bob Vlahopoulos;
  • JCO & Associates (912547 Ontario Inc.) and owner Jose De Oliveira; as well as
  • LAR Condominium Refurbishment Specialists (Lidio Romanin Construction Company Limited) and owner Tony Romanin.
A fourth company, CPL Interiors Ltd., was charged under the conspiracy provision of the Competition Act for its role in the alleged scheme.
The Bureau alleges that the accused conspired to commit fraud and rig bids for refurbishment contracts issued by private condominium corporations in the GTA between 2009 and 2014. The condominium corporations and the condominium owners who fund them are the alleged victims. Generally speaking, bid-rigging schemes result in victims paying higher prices for goods and services.
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It's a no brainer.
I've done work for condo corps.
You submit your pricing, they tell you what to add on, the difference gets kicked back every draw.
It's ideal for the contractor, your money is guaranteed, and you get paid FAST so everyone else can get their grimy hands on it ASAP.
 
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It's a no brainer.
I've done work for condo corps.
You submit your pricing, they tell you what to add on, the difference gets kicked back every draw.
It's ideal for the contractor, your money is guaranteed, and you get paid FAST so everyone else can get their grimy hands on it ASAP.

Probably chump change compared to the closed bid-rigging organized crime groups laundering money through the big reno projects. Like "hockey bags" of cash.

Be careful though. Smaller charges, civil lawsuits and CRA investigations are happening now more than you know.
 

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It doesn't matter whatsoever if the condo board "was out to screw him". His due process is the courts, not playing cowboy and assassinating a bunch of people.

Fucking psycho. World is better off with him gone. Only too bad the cops didn't arrive earlier to snuff his xmas lights out before he started murdering people.
 

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The wacko watched an episode of Better call Saul and all of the sudden he was afflicted with electromagnetic sensitivity.

 

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I've dealt with condo residents like this guy. You just have to be more crazy than them and get your point across to not fuck with you in a very convincing manner. Be the biggest dog in the yard.

I'm sorry for the people and the families be killed. I'm sorry for his family too. Can you imagine the terror he inflicted on them?
guns can kill the biggest dog in the yard
 

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I would've made sure that he knew knocking on my door would be a mistake BEFORE he even considered it. Most of these shooters are cowards and prey on the weak. These poor victims were probably just run of the mill folks that didn't want to harm anyone. I would've shot him myself before the cops got there.

I like gun. 🙂
Not every big dog in the yard has a gun
 
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