Brentwood apartment owner Linda Woo won a $10K human rights complaint settlement in August 2021 over noise coming from the unit below her, but two more recent complaints were rejected by the Civil Resolution Tribunal.
A Burnaby strata owner who claimed her downstairs neighbour's loud talking, noisy appliances, banging cupboards and loud fans were keeping her up at night has lost a pair of cases at the province's Civil Resolution Tribunal.
The owner of that unit, Aliza Amarshi, launched her own complaint, saying it was Woo who was the disruptive neighbour, not her. The strata had further argued the case should be dismissed because Woo's complaints had already been dealt with in an earlier tribunal case – and a case at the province’s Human Rights Tribunal.
While Woo had provided cell phone recordings of the alleged noise coming from the downstairs apartment, Gardner said any audible noises on the recordings were "generally very muffled and difficult to discern." "I find the strata has reasonably attempted to investigate Ms. Woo's noise complaints against the strata lot below her since August 25, 2021," Gardner wrote.‘Particular sensitivity to noise’ Gardner, who ruled on both of Woo's most recent cases, dismissed her complaint against Amarshi on similar grounds, including the lack of objective evidence about the noise level in Woo's unit.
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