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Originally Posted by Alpine
Once you get into one of these larger 1000sqft+ condos and end up paying $1000+/month, that's when the strata fees become asinine.
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The unit I'm renting now while I'm on contract in Toronto is a 2005 era condo, 1 bed + den/1 bath at 850 sq. ft., has a monthly fee of... just over $1,400/mo. Luckily it's a family friend who's out of country renting it out so I literally just cover that fee.
This doesn't seem uncommon in Toronto though. The fee includes electricity, gas, cable TV. Gas and electricity are not metered per unit.
Still, I can't help but wonder how wasteful people in the building are with energy knowing it's non-metered flat rate heating/AC/electricity. I know that one of my elderly neighbours keeps their thermostat pinned at 25 throughout winter.
I'm pretty energy conscious (I def. remember BC Hydro/Power Smart ads on YTV and them coming to my elementary school) but I can't help the realization that I'm subsidizing the usage of heavier units. I should mine BTC.