About

Who builds this, and how the answers are sourced.

Know Your Strata gives volunteer condo and strata boards the deadlines and thresholds their legislation actually sets, with the section number attached to every answer and the date that section was last read. This page says who is behind that, how the sourcing works, and what these tools deliberately will not do.

Who

Know Your Strata is built and maintained by Nour Attaallah, PhD. I am a data professional, not a lawyer. My background is a PhD and MS in Civil and Environmental Engineering, in water information systems and data analytics, from Utah State University, a CDMP Master certification, and roughly twelve years building data systems for organisations that have to get regulated numbers right the first time.

That is the honest description of what I bring: not legal training, but the discipline of tracing a number back to its source, keeping the source cited, and re-checking it on a schedule rather than assuming it stayed true. Everything below is that discipline applied to strata and condominium legislation.

This site is independent. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or speaking for any government, ministry, tribunal or industry body, including the Condominium Home Owners Association of B.C., the Vancouver Island Strata Owners Association, the Canadian Condominium Institute or the Condominium Authority of Ontario.

Why it exists

Strata and condominium boards are volunteers. They are given real statutory duties with real consequences, and the deadlines that carry those consequences are buried in legislation written for lawyers. A notice sent nineteen days before a general meeting instead of twenty can void what the meeting decides. A special levy split the wrong way gets challenged. A records request answered a week late becomes a penalty.

The law is public and free to read. It is just very hard to read quickly, at the moment you need it, while running a meeting. These tools are the reading, done in advance, with the source left visible so you can check the work rather than trust it.

How every answer is sourced

This is the part that matters, and it is the reason to trust the site or not.

  1. Primary sources only. Answers are built from the official consolidations: bclaws.gov.bc.ca for British Columbia, ontario.ca e-Laws for Ontario. Not from blog posts, not from other calculators, not from memory.
  2. Every answer names its section. A tool does not simply tell you twenty days. It tells you which section of which Act says twenty days, and shows the arithmetic that turns that into a date on your calendar.
  3. Every page carries two dates. The date the page was last verified against the source, and the currency date of the consolidation it was read against. Both are printed in the footer of every tool, in the same place, every time.
  4. An automated watcher checks the source legislation. A scheduled job re-reads the B.C. legislation sources every week and raises an alert when the text changes, so a quiet amendment does not sit undetected on the site. Every check it has made is published on the monitoring page. It detects and alerts; it never silently edits a page. Ontario joined the same weekly watcher on 27 August 2026: it reads the official e-Laws consolidation date and the version lists for the Condominium Act, 1998 and O. Reg. 48/01, so a new consolidation is caught the week it appears.
  5. Uncertainty is labelled, not smoothed over. Where an answer rests on case law rather than statute, the cases are named. Where a source could not be read directly, the page says so and lowers its own confidence rather than presenting a shaky answer in the same voice as a settled one. Where the law is already scheduled to change, as with Ontario's pending amendments, the tool says what changes and when.

If a tool ever gives you a number without a section behind it, that is a defect. Tell me and I will fix it.

What these tools will not do

Where this is run from

Know Your Strata is operated from Connecticut, in the United States, and covers Canadian legislation. That is worth stating plainly rather than leaving you to work out.

What makes an answer on this site reliable is not where I sit. It is that the answer is taken from the official consolidation of the Act, cited to the section, dated, and re-checked on a schedule, and that you can follow the citation and confirm it yourself in about a minute. That standard travels. It is also the reason the coverage grows slowly.

How this is paid for

The calculators and the cheat sheet are free, permanently. There is one paid product, the Board Starter Pack, at CAD $49 one time per province.

There is no advertising on this site, no sponsored placements, no affiliate arrangements with managers, lawyers or insurers, and nothing on it is written to favour a vendor. The email list is used to tell subscribers when the law changes; addresses are never sold, rented or shared. That is the whole business model, and it is stated here so you can weigh what you read accordingly.

Corrections

If you find an error, a stale date, or a section that has been amended since a page was verified, I want to hear about it and it takes priority over everything else on the list. Write to hello@knowyourstrata.com. Corrections are made to the page and the verified date is updated when they are.

Last updated 26 August 2026.