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3 Crucial Considerations That Help You to Buy a Right Condo

Author: Condo and Loft
by Condo and Loft
Posted: Jul 06, 2016

It is rather true that it costs a lot of money while buying a condo in Toronto area. The cost is even higher in the highly sophisticated area. So making a mistake is not an option. Given below are some imperative considerations that help you to know while buying a condo in Toronto and its surrounding areas.

Make sure to know what you are buying:

When you are buying a home, there is no doubt in anybody’s mind as to what you are buying. The home and yard that you are buying and any other structure on the yard, you own them free and clear. Of course, you are buying a condo in Toronto. Your property line starts in the middle of exterior walls and ends on the other side in the middle of exterior walls. At the same time, your property line begins in the middle of the floor and goes to the middle of the ceiling.

While buying a condo in Toronto area, make sure that you are buying a shared interest in the land and the building, the common areas. And it means that it is not enough to like the unit that you plan to buy, you need to pay close attention to the common areas. If there are going to be repairs to the common areas, you will be partly responsible for them.

Properly know the Association:

Before buying a condo space in Toronto, make sure that the budget should show that there is enough money coming in to cover monthly costs, collection, maintenance costs etc. These are monthly bill that you need to pay for your condominium. It means it should be at least 5% of the association gross operating your budget.

You should know what is the exact percentage or space that you own jointly. In that case, make sure everything is properly documented on the deed. You can calculate how much you have to pay for special assessments and how much voting power that you have.

You should know your association and also read the deed and the declaration of covenants, conditions and restrictions carefully. If you found any irrelevant issues while interacting with the condo owner, you can recheck the documents properly.

Know your Neighbor properly:

Last but not the least; you should know your neighbors properly. It is best to buy a complex where the other owners have situations similar to yours. There are two reasons;

Some of them are going to be on the board of directors, making up rules, the rest will be voting for these rules. In that case, it is best if you are in the first group.

If you are pulling the right and everybody else is pulling left, you are going left. On the other side, you have less privacy in a condo than a home.

Moreover, you need to have many things be right to buy a condo that you will love living in. However, the above all information is very important while buying a condo in Toronto.

The author of this article works as an affiliate marketer for Condo and Loft. He has years of experience on writing articles and blogs on buying condos in Toronto. You can know more about choosing the right condos and lofts according to your requirements by accessing his articles.

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The author of this article works as an affiliate marketer for Condo and Loft. He has long years of experience about writing different articles and blogs on choosing new condo developments in Toronto.

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