By continuing your navigation, you accept the use of cookies to have services and offers tailored to your interests.
To learn more view our Cookie Policy.
Fund dedicated to the payment of the deductible that the syndicate of co-owners is required to pay in relation with the insurance coverage of the co-ownership. This fund is also dedicated to the repair of the damage caused to property in which the syndicate has an insurable interest, when the contingency fund or an insurance indemnity can not provide for it (e.g. in the case of a insurance limit, underinsurance or of an exclusions etc.). It is the duty of the Board of Directors, after consultation with the General Meeting of the Co-owners, to fix the amounts to be paid into the self-insurance fund.
21/09/2024
When purchasing an apartment in a high-rise building, the buyer automatically becomes a co-owner in a vertical co-ownership, where the units are stacked on top of each other. However, when acquiring a house (detached, townhouse or semi-detached) located on a shared piece of land with other houses, it typically falls under horizontal co-ownership., where…...
17/09/2024
When you buy a unit in divided co-ownership, you do not only acquire an apartment. You also join a group of co-owners responsible for the accounts to be paid to maintain and preserve the building. It is therefore important to be careful and to check, upstream, the financial statements and…...
25/05/2024
After being victims of a loss, the members of the board of directors and the affected co-owners are often caught off guard. How will things unfold? There is no need to worry or panic, because in principle, once the notice of loss completed, various stakeholders get involved: the insurer of…...
25/05/2024
Most insurance policies include deductibles, with amounts varying based on the insured risk. For example, the deductible for water damage is generally higher than that for fires. The purpose of the deductible is to make the insured responsible by having them cover part of the repair costs for damages caused by…...
21/05/2024
Syndicates of co-owners must set up a liquid and available short-term Self-Insurance Fund. The purpose of this fund is to anticipate and finance, in particular, expenses relating to the carrying out of future work following a disaster. This fund, mandatory under article 1071.1 of the Civil Code of Quebec, became…...
27/04/2024
The law obliges syndicates of co-owners to insure their immovable; the majority of declarations of co-ownerships also have such requirement. This can be explained by the syndicate's main objective which consists to ensure the preservation of the immovable and its longevity; this is why the legislator has given to the syndicate an insurable interest and has made it…...
30/03/2024
Common expenses are payable by the person who is the title owner upon receipt of the notice of assessment. However, when selling a fraction, the buyer may be required to pay with interest for all common charges owed by the seller (Article 1069 of the Civil Code of Québec). It…...
29/02/2024
Preparing a forecast annual budget is an unavoidable task in a co-ownership (condominium); its preparation, preliminary examination and adoption will ensure the proper functioning of the syndicate of co-owners. It is up to the board of directors to define the terms of the forecast annual budget based on the expenses that will have to…...
01/01/2024
Dans cette capsule vidéo, l’avocat émérite Yves Joli-Coeur aborde un sujet essentiel pour toute copropriété : le fonds d’auto assurance. Il rappelle que les syndicats de copropriétaires doivent mettre en place un fonds d’auto assurance qui est liquide et disponible à court terme. Ce fonds a pour but d’anticiper et…...
03/02/2022
3 février 2022 — Le Gouvernement du Québec a publié dans la Gazette officielle du Québec, le 2 février 2022, un projet de règlement modifiant le Règlement établissant diverses mesures en matière d’assurance des copropriétés divises. Ce projet de règlement modifie les modalités permettant d’établir la contribution minimale au fonds…...
09/08/2022
A syndicate of co-owners has the obligation to account for its operations by funds. The Civil Code of Québec requires the creation of a general fund, a contingency fund and in April 2022, the creation of the self-insurance fund. The creation of the early self-insurance fund is recommended. The general…...
11/06/2021
Le fonds d’auto assurance est affecté au paiement des franchises prévues par les assurances souscrites par le syndicat et d'un montant additionnel raisonnable Questions : Qu'est-ce qu'un montant additionnel raisonnable? Comment fait-on pour connaitre la somme additionnelle? On doit se fier sur quoi exactement pour définir la somme additionnelle?...
09/08/2022
At our last annual co-owner's meeting, the board of directors informed us that it was going to take $10,000 from our contingency fund to set up a self-insurance fund. To justify their decision, the directors said that this will allow to avoid putting up a special assessment. Several co-owners seemed to…...