Toronto condo owner fights court order to sell her home

A Toronto condo owner found to have used spray paint to assault her neighbours and also emblazon swastikas on their doors is fighting a court order that she sell the home that she has been banned from visiting or living in for more than a year.

While it’s relatively rare for a court to force owners to sell condo properties over extreme or anti-social behaviour – there are typically fewer than half a dozen instances a year according to condo law experts – the case highlights the potentially heavy cost of failing to get along with your neighbours. But participants in the effort to remove the owner in this case also say they were subjected to an almost unprecedented weaponization of processes in everything from human-rights complaints to various professional bodies, as well as personal harassment that went beyond the pale.