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Robert Galster

News Reporter
roberr@nsnews.cam

DAPHNE Page’s home
is literally falling apart.

away from the structure, result-
ing in constant flooding. The
porch is rife with drv and wet
rot and the home's structural
integrity is in question.

“It’s kind of a disaster story
of one person buying a small

the absence of the document
while Page’s lawyer said his
work was more concerned with
land title search-type work.
“What-it comes down to
(is) she’s an intelligent woman,’
she knows what she’s doing...

summaries of topics on the
agendas of North Shore
municipalities:

North Vancouver District
Council: The next meeting is
on Monday, August 10. ;

North. Vancouver City .
‘Council: Monday, July 27 at’
-6-p.m.: Reports: Sunrise Park
parking. proposal; outdoor
. play and congregational space
eat. Independent Schools;
‘amendment of zoning’ bylaw.
e¢. “Full Service Pumps”;
rezoning of 123 W. L5th St.
to permit development of a
“15 storey building. Reports:
tow level bikeway; school vio-
lence prevention grant.

West Vancouver . District .
Council: Monday, July 27 at :
7:45 pom: bed anu breakfast:
business; proposed pub appli- |
cation procedure policy; traf-
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se. bylaw) exemptions;
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enjoying a morning, off in the
Granite Falls area when’ a girl
secking a cell phone stumbled
upon him. The girl said her
friends had been injured near-
by. Watt jumped into his boat
and ‘navigated into , radio
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“DAPHNE Page and sons Sam, 5, and Harry, 10, have had
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tions are desperately needed
around here,” said Watt.”

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Page is a single mother with
Last year she was
hired by, the North Vancouver
School District to teach foods
at Carson Graham secondary
school, Next up was finding a
place to live.

As it turned out, the house
found her.

Peter Jensen, a Vancouver
realtor, was familiar with a
sinall, attractive home in North
Vancouver.

“T love this fitele house. I
wish [ knew someone who
could buy it,” recalled Jensen
saying to a friend who also
knew Page. “Essentially it was
one of those cosmic things.”

Page didn’t fall in love with
it immediately, but with time it
_ Brew on her. Financing wasn’t
‘an easy thing for her to sceure
‘with a single income, but she

! managed to pull ir off.”

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On March 1 she maved in.
i She had put her kids to bed,
' breathed a sigh of relief and let
the happiness of the moment

wash over her as a heavy rain

__ started to fall outside, It was

good to be. indoors. She later
turned out the fights and went
to bed a content woman, Buta
‘strange noise, summoned her
back to the living roam.

Once there she approached
a closet at the front: of ‘the
house and to her horror discov-
ered it had been flooded.

“The closet was soaked. It
was like a boy,” she recalled.

A few. days’ later the roof
started to leak.

“It’s a litle old house that |
thought with a file money |
could paint ir and make it look
nice,” said Page. “Bur-all- that
money went for the new roof”

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“but it seems some of the infor-
mation she was. going on
wasn’t clear,” said Jensen. :

A still sadder postscript: to
Page’s tale is thar she was
recently laid off from ber job at
Carson Graham, though she
may still find a job in the same
school district:

With limited choices and
the fact that none of the parties °
her lawyer addressed © have
responded leaves Page little .
choice but to proceed with a”
court action. She has her reser-
vations though.

“Pm nota nut. f don’t want
to spend a ton of money I
don’t have suing everybody,” :
said Page.

house and everything going
wrong,” said Page in a sad
assessment of her experience.

A building consultant's
report states the home needs
about $18,000 in’ repairs to

“Tt’s kind of a
disaster story of .

everything going
wrong.”

bring it up toa reasonable stan-
dard. How, wondered Page,
had she gotten herself into this
mess? Before she purchased the
home, she had input ‘from a

* building contractor, a realtor

and a lawyer.

It turns out the contractor's .
report was vague, leaving room
for a lot to go wrong without
so much as stating it directly. §

‘age thought through her
predicament and decided she /:
wasn't going to take her ntis-
fortune ling down. :

“Pri taking them all to”
court,” said Page,

Ac the heart.of the matter -

lies the absence of the vendors’

disclosure statement, which is
an integral part of any real
estate transaction contract.
Neither Page's’ lawyer nor. her
realtor noticed it was missing.
Meanwhile, the — realrors
who acted. on. behalf of the.’

home’s ‘sellers have failed. to“

acknowledge the absence of the

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might have been: involved.in
the transaction, Rigets replied
“lam the company” ‘and hun

“up,

Jensen said he never not

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