Condo Association

We went to our first Condo Association AGM last night. It definately helped us understand more of what the heck is going on.

As I did not grow up with condo's, and had no idea of the whole concept, moving in to one and living with the whole condo idea has been a learning curve.

Back home if you buy a house, you buy a house, it's yours, and that is it. I'm not used to it being my house but someone else can tell me what to do with it and how to live in it. OK not totally how to live in it but to some degree. If we want a pet we have to ask permission, we're not allowed to put a cloths line on our deck or in our garden, we have to ask permission if we want a satellite dish, that kinda thing.

Anyways, something that has been bothering us is that we were told about 6 weeks ago that we had to cease using our woodburning fireplace immediately. Me & L were a little put out by this, why, since when was there a problem? Last night answered our questions, other units have been having water leakage and when investigated it showed that our chimneys are actually unsafely close to the wood structure, so that is obvious why we can't use our fireplace. Apparently our units were shoddily made, 1982 was not the best year to build homes. Other complexes built around the same time, by the same contracter are having similiar issues. I'm kinda gutted about it though, I loved having a fireplace, now it looks like we're gonna have to go gas or electrical cos we just CANNOT afford the $10,000 it would cost us to re-do our woodburning fireplace, SUCKS! As it is we're gonna have to save like mad to do the other options, but what can you do...