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    Default 2020 Condo Fees

    Just got notice for my rental townhouse that condo fees are up 4.7% next year from 461 to 483 in my case. The main reason seems to be the increases in insurance rates.

    Curious if others are seeing a big increase in their monthly condo fees and by how much.

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    I've seen a few threads on reddit with similar things. Insurance premiums, especially for the wood framed condos, are jumping up a lot

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    No increase, but they levied a $600 special assessment to cover the shortfall. So same same.
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    Yes, our board just had the AGM and insurance across the board is expected to go up. Someone said a +20% increase wouldn't surprise them.
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    My condo fees went from $294.27 to $347.86 with the latest building insurance renewal

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    Mine went down because we canceled some unnecessary services. Not sure why they just didn't keep the fees the same and the extra to pad the reverses but whatevz.

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    Our condo fees are only going up 2.2% since we decided to can trotter and Morton and switch management companies. Those 2 changes alone resulted in the condo corporation saving almost 40k and helped offset our 39% increase in insurance premiums...

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    Hold on to your shorts if you have a condo. This has been several years in the making, it all started in the spring of 2014 really. After insurance companies got financially kicked in the balls with the 2013 floods the writing was on the wall. At the time Cooperators was the largest underwriter of condo corporation policies and they exited the market entirely in 2014 which left a pretty big vacuum. Over the next couple of years more & more insurance companies refused to write multi-family residential realestate due to poor results so you get what we have today, only a handful of players left and they can charge whatever the fuck they want. I'm dealing with one right now where the condo board's policy went from $87K for 2019 to $311K for 2020 and the deductibles (which matters to the individual unit owners) have increased as much as 500%. No...those aren't typos. I think this client lives in a larger complex but still, if there's 200 units that all works out to about an extra $100 a month. I don't write condo board policies but I sure wish I would have gotten into that side of things years ago!
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    Mine went up around $6/month this year from $205 to $211.

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    Quote Originally Posted by flipstah View Post
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    Mine went down because we canceled some unnecessary services. Not sure why they just didn't keep the fees the same and the extra to pad the reverses but whatevz.
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    Mine went up from $449 --> $560 over 7 years in the place I used to live in. Then they dropped down to $545 the last year I lived there. I can only assume they are going up again for 2020, especially since we had so many insurance claims I don't even want to know what the premiums/deductibles are going to be like next year.

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    "Masked Bandit is a gateway drug for frugal spending." - Unknown303

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    Quote Originally Posted by Masked Bandit View Post
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    So the problem is country wide.

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    "Why are you raising our rates?"

    "Because I said so."

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    I’ve owned two properties with condo fees, never again.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Masked Bandit View Post
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    Hold on to your shorts if you have a condo. This has been several years in the making, it all started in the spring of 2014 really. After insurance companies got financially kicked in the balls with the 2013 floods the writing was on the wall. At the time Cooperators was the largest underwriter of condo corporation policies and they exited the market entirely in 2014 which left a pretty big vacuum. Over the next couple of years more & more insurance companies refused to write multi-family residential realestate due to poor results so you get what we have today, only a handful of players left and they can charge whatever the fuck they want. I'm dealing with one right now where the condo board's policy went from $87K for 2019 to $311K for 2020 and the deductibles (which matters to the individual unit owners) have increased as much as 500%. No...those aren't typos. I think this client lives in a larger complex but still, if there's 200 units that all works out to about an extra $100 a month. I don't write condo board policies but I sure wish I would have gotten into that side of things years ago!
    Always appreciative of your insights into this volatile insurance markets.
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    WTF! hopefully mine doesnt sky rocket.... I started out at around $150-15 years ago and now im at $264
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    and I did not have the only say in the matter (most people just want it done ASAP and don't care about quality).
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    If anything we made a better decision because we had a consensus and were all on the same page.

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    Mine went up from $270 to $309. But to be fair I budgeted this into my finances when I bought my place four years ago.

    So its no big deal. Its like owning a home. You will have to replace the furnace, redo the roof etc. Condo is no different, just on a smaller scale.

    Edit: I ran the calculation. It was a 14.4 percent increase.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Masked Bandit View Post
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    Hold on to your shorts if you have a condo. This has been several years in the making, it all started in the spring of 2014 really. After insurance companies got financially kicked in the balls with the 2013 floods the writing was on the wall. At the time Cooperators was the largest underwriter of condo corporation policies and they exited the market entirely in 2014 which left a pretty big vacuum. Over the next couple of years more & more insurance companies refused to write multi-family residential realestate due to poor results so you get what we have today, only a handful of players left and they can charge whatever the fuck they want. I'm dealing with one right now where the condo board's policy went from $87K for 2019 to $311K for 2020 and the deductibles (which matters to the individual unit owners) have increased as much as 500%. No...those aren't typos. I think this client lives in a larger complex but still, if there's 200 units that all works out to about an extra $100 a month. I don't write condo board policies but I sure wish I would have gotten into that side of things years ago!
    Do you notice any difference in wood framed buildings vs concrete? Or is everything going up.

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