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Quietly, without any fanfare on January 2, 2025, Jonny Yaniv finally paid his strata $3,268.07 as ordered by the British Columbia Civil Resolution Tribunal on June 12, 2024. He didn’t want to pay it and even whined during the proceedings that he could not afford to pay it and wouldn’t. Yaniv even hilariously argued that enforcing the payment order would be a violation of his human rights. The tribunal member wrote about Yaniv that even if he could not pay when ordered to do so, an inability to pay does not relieve a person of their obligation to pay if they are ordered to do so. He was so ordered and had 30 days to pay it, didn’t and on July 24 his strata applied for a payment enforcement order which was granted.
Just as a quick reminder this was yet another of a series of complaints against his strata. This one was different from the others in that the tribunal member not only dismissed his complaints but assessed costs AND declared that Rexy was NOT a service dog but an aggressive one with a history of attacking dogs belonging to other residents and biting. Something that Jonny denied despite the security camera footage that was shown of Rexy doing just that at the Tribunal. Even after viewing the footage, he still denies that Rexy bit anyone.
The question everyone has been asking the past few days is why pay now and where did he get the money? I am sure it’s purely coincidental that the order was paid during the same week that student loans hit bank accounts. Granted he was being charged interest but the interest was just over 60 dollars (62.50) at the time of payment – the price of a meal at the Olive Garden. It may be that he had a mortgage renewal coming up or needed to increase his line of credit. Or, perhaps his strata was soon going to try to force a foreclosure. Either way he did pay the $3,205.57 for the dispute related expenses of the strata’s legal fees, 62.50 (half the strata’s BCCRT fees and $62.50 interest fees. And the Strata and unfortunate residents are still stuck with him.
