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Neil Rachyski

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SHOW A
LITTLE
CHARITY

The Canadian
Centre for
Philanthropy is
advising
charitable and
non-profit
organizations to
brace
themselves. The
word of caution
comes in the
wake of a 10 per
cent cut in grants
to such
programs,
roughly $1.8
billion. The
centre is telling
charitable groups
to cut activities
that don’t fulfill
their mandate,
and to seek a
partnership with
private
companies and
among
themselves.

SEATS
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CENTURY

If you own a
Century STE
convertible car,
you might have a
problem. Some
3,000 cars made
from Sept. 1,
1989 to April 30,
1992 have a seat
belt buckle-
release problem.
Call Century for
details at 1-800-
231-2755

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NEWS REPORTER

Buyer beware.

It’s still the bottom line for
home buyers regardless of the
introduction of disclosure
statements. The word of advice
comes from realtor Peter
Blackwell of NRS
Mountainview Agencies Ltd. in
Castlegar.

Blackwell doubts the
effectiveness of what are
known as Property Condition
Disclosure Statements. The
PCDS require the vendor to
answer questions about items
like water and sewer systems,
encroachments and structural
problems.

A news release from the B.C.
Real Estate Association claims
the document “eliminates
concern about typically
undisclosed problems regarding
property.” The association
states it should provide
customers with confidence
about their real estate
purchases.

But Blackwell says that may
be a false sense of security.

“The vendor in some ways is
protected and so is the buyer,”
Blackwell says. “That is the
concept. Unfortunately they
have pitfalls too.”

He used a leaking basement
as an example. You may own a
25-year-old home and only
lived in it for three years.
During that time you may have
been fortunate enough to have
had dry weather and never had
a problem with a leaky
basement.

When it comes time to sell,
you disclose on the statement
that the basement is fine. But
when the new owner takes over

during a_ wet season, he comes

Buyer

BEWA

back to you when the basement
leaks waving the disclosure
statement in his fist.

“I see PCDS as.a source of
potential danger,” Blackwell
says.

Castlegar Realty Ltd. owner
Wayne McCarthy is taking a
wait-and-see approach before
pushing ahead with forms.
Since the PCDS is just over a
year old, McCarthy wants to

News photo by Neil Rachynski

NRS Moutainview Agencies’ Peter Blackwell is worried about the pitfalls
of Property Condition Disclosure Statements

see what the eventual fall-out
is, and what the “legal beagles”
determine.

“They’re a good thing
because it keeps the realtor off
the hot-seat,” McCarthy says.
“It puts the owness of
disclosure on the vendor and off
the realtor.”

Even still, McCarthy doesn’t
expect the forms will create
much of a change.

“I don’t think it’s zoing to |
have a big impact on the
industry,” McCarthy says.

One of the pitfalls of the
forms is that they are not
necessarily a legal document.
And unless both the vendor and
the buyer agree, it is not valid
as part of the sales contract.

“Not once have I seen a
vendor want to sign that.”

Blackwell says the sellers’
hesitate to use the PCDS as a
contract some questions on the
form are beyond what the
typical homeowner can
reasonably know.

One question asks, “are you
aware of any encroachments,
unregistered easements or
unregistered rights of way?”

“(Owners) don’t know what a
registered easement is, some
don’t even know what an
easement is,” Blackwell says.

The vendor must answer
either ‘yes’ or ‘no’ to that
question, there is no allowance
for ‘do not know.’

“What is this really saying?
The interpretation gets lost in
the woodwork,” he says. “If the
purchaser interprets it as a
legal contract then you end up
in a legal tug-of-war.

“The question of whether
‘should you have been aware’
comes up.”

The PCDS have been around
in its current form for just over
a year.

And while Blackwell says he
is leery about the PCDS, he
admits they do have merit.

“There’s no question there’s
value to the form,” Blackwell
said. “(But) it’s not the
beginning and end of your
problems. I would be cautious
of using that and misconstrue
what that really is.”

Love-hate

I raised some concerned
eyebrows last weekend.

When I wrote about the
accountability of the Arrow
Forest District, I got an earful
from — guess who — the
Arrow Forest District.

For those not yet in the
know, permits for 56 cutting
blocks were found to be invalid.
The district discovered the
error after conducting an
internal audit. The permits
date back to 1987.

Not surprisingly, environ-
mental groups were up in arms
over the discovery. New
Denver’s Valhalla Society say
they are contemplating legal
charges. And the Slocan Valley
Watershed Alliance see it as a
threat to the Commission on
Resources and Environment.
The CORE project is aimed at
getting logging companies,
environmental groups and the

relationship a two-way street

| Nei RACHYNSKI

government together on forest

management issues.

This is not to say I still don’t
have a_ problem with
retroactive solutions. I do. The
district is currently going over
the permits to bring them up to
speed — making illegal
documents legal. See what
would happen if you and I tried

to do that.

But my two visitors from the
forest district did raise some
valid points.

The SVWA should not use
the issue of the 56 cutting
blocks to weasel out of the
CORE process. The environ-
mental group has already told
me that any small fragments of
trust that exist between the
two sides has pretty much
sunk. Why? Because of the
audit’s discovery.

I’m a fan of the CORE idea.
It’s an innovative alternative to
violent confrontation. At least
this way, the only assault
charges to arise out of the
boardroom will be verbal.

The SVWA expects CORE to
bring about a new age in forest
management. The Arrow
Forest District seems pleased
to see CORE ushered in.

It’s unfortunate, though,

that the people from the
district have to do the Ministry
of Forests’ dirty work. These
are planners and managers in
charge harvesting and forestry.
They are not PR people, nor
should they have to be. It’s
easy to hide in the upper
echelon while the people in the
trenches take all the heat.

The CORE project is a
chance for everyone’s voices to
be heard. If a group decides not
to participate in CORE because
they have been stiffed in the
past, that’s their decision.

Let’s face it. As much as
some of the things done in the
past hurt, nothing can change
that. The only thing that can
be changed is attitudes.

There is a two-way street
facing environmentalists and
government. And if neither
side gets cold feet, they could
hopefully meet in the middle.

@ Saturday, January 9, 1993

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