A BC condo owner’s life was made a living hell because of the way a former neighbour treated her, forcing the woman to take her issue to the BC Civil Resolution Tribunal.
The complainant brought a case against a man, who was the owner of the neighbouring condo unit, and a woman who resided in it.
The complainant said that the woman screamed obscenities, slammed doors, and watched her through a neighbouring window.
The complainant asked the tribunal for $5,000 in damages.
In defence, both the man and woman said that the complainant’s claims were exaggerated, but the tribunal thought otherwise, according to a publicly posted decision.
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The tribunal immediately dismissed claims made against the man because he wasn’t the one causing disturbances against the complainant ; however, it paid lots of attention to the allegations against the woman. The complainant had witness statements to support her claims and evidence that she complained to the building’s strata.
The woman residing in the unit, on the other hand, did not submit any evidence.
The complainant started moving her things into unit 401 in the condo building in August 2022 and began renovations that month. The complainant claims that whenever she visited the unit, the woman waited in the hallway and screamed obscenities about various topics, like the complaintant’s balcony light shining into the woman’s unit 402, stalkers in the building, highway traffic noise and other issues.
The tribunal was told that behaviour continued until the woman was eventually evicted a year later.
Extensive evidence includes reports of the woman shouting at the complainant from unit 402’s balcony or through the walls. Claims also included reports of the woman’s banging walls, slamming doors, and video recording the complainant through her windows. Written complaints were consistent from September 2022 through August 2023.
A different resident, from whom the complainant provided witness statements, suggested they experienced similar behaviour from the woman. That witness also heard daily stomping, wall-banging and loud profanity “at all hours of the day and night,” adding that they felt unsafe around the woman and she interrupted their sleep nightly.
While the complainant didn’t win her claim for $5,000, the tribunal did award her $2,500 in damages for nuisance, walking away with a total of $2,860.54 after tribunal fees were factored in.