Before you pay that condo fine — find out if it's actually enforceable.
Upload your fine letter and your bylaw. We'll give you a cited assessment against Alberta's Condominium Property Act and Regulation — in about five minutes, for $15.
Check my fine — $15Built by people who work professionally with Alberta condominium bylaw enforcement — the same team that builds the software Alberta condo corporations use to draft and audit their notices.
You got a fine. Now what?
Most Alberta condo owners reach for one of three options. We added a fourth.
| Approach | Cost | Time | What you get |
|---|---|---|---|
Just pay it | Up to $500 (1st) / $1,000 (2nd+) | 1 minute | Done — but you may have paid a fine that wouldn't hold up under scrutiny |
Read it yourself | $0 | 3–8 hours | An educated guess. The relevant rules are scattered across the Condominium Property Act, the Regulation, and your bylaw |
Hire a lawyer | $300–$600 | 1–2 weeks for an appointment + opinion | A verified expert opinion. Worth it for complex cases |
FineCheck Recommended | $15 | ~5 minutes | A cited report against CPR s.73.7 + s.73.8 + the deemed-receipt rules. Includes a draft response you can send to your board or attach to a CDRT application |
- Cost
- Up to $500 (1st) / $1,000 (2nd+)
- Time
- 1 minute
- You get
- Done — but you may have paid a fine that wouldn't hold up under scrutiny
- Cost
- $0
- Time
- 3–8 hours
- You get
- An educated guess. The relevant rules are scattered across the Condominium Property Act, the Regulation, and your bylaw
- Cost
- $300–$600
- Time
- 1–2 weeks for an appointment + opinion
- You get
- A verified expert opinion. Worth it for complex cases
- Cost
- $15
- Time
- ~5 minutes
- You get
- A cited report against CPR s.73.7 + s.73.8 + the deemed-receipt rules. Includes a draft response you can send to your board or attach to a CDRT application
Numbers are typical for Alberta in 2026; your situation may differ.
How it works
Paste the fine letter
Copy the text from the letter the board or manager sent you. We'll pull out the bylaw section cited, the fine amount, the offence number, and the deadline.
Upload your bylaw
Your condominium's bylaw is registered at Alberta Land Titles. If you have a copy, upload the PDF. If you don't, we can usually help you find it.
Get your report
We check the letter against your bylaw and Alberta's Condominium Property Act and Regulation. You get a cited assessment with a recommended next step. ~5 minutes.
What's in the report
Six checks. Every claim cited.
Bylaw match
Does your bylaw actually say what the board says it says? Sometimes the cited section doesn't cover the alleged offence at all.
Fine cap (CPR s.73.8)
Alberta caps first-offence fines at $500 and subsequent offences at $1,000. We flag any letter that exceeds the cap.
Required fields (CPR s.73.7)
A Proposed Sanction must include 10 specific items. Missing one can void the notice. We check every item.
Deemed receipt & deadline
Your response deadline starts from deemed receipt, not the date on the letter. We compute the correct date.
Process compliance
Did the board follow the required steps before issuing? (Prior warning, board resolution, opportunity to respond.)
Recommended next step
Pay, dispute, request clarification, or escalate — with specific language you can use.
You also get a one-page PDF you can attach to a response or share with a lawyer if you decide to escalate.
What to do with your report
The report tells you whether your fine has procedural problems. What happens next depends on what we find.
If the report shows clean compliance — the board followed CPR s.73.7, the fine is within the statutory cap, the deemed-receipt math works — your fine probably stands. You can still negotiate or pay; you know your position.
If the report flags process issues, you have a real choice. Most owners take one of two paths:
- Respond directly to the boardwith a written reply citing the specific problems the report identified. Many disputes resolve here — boards usually withdraw or amend a fine they realize they can't defend. The report includes suggested response language.
- File at Alberta's Condominium Dispute Resolution Tribunal (the CDRT). This is Alberta's new low-cost forum, launched April 1, 2026. It has jurisdiction to hear fine disputes — including challenges to the process the board used to issue the fine (Condominium Property Act, s.35). The filing fee is $150, decisions are typically issued within months, and you can represent yourself.
We don't represent you at the CDRT and we don't file applications for you. We give you the procedural evidence; you decide how to use it.
What this isn't
We're upfront about the limits:
- This is not legal advice.It's a structured assessment based on the documents you provide and Alberta condo law as published. If your situation involves litigation, a hearing, or significant money, hire a lawyer. We'll tell you when to.
- Alberta only. We check Alberta's Condominium Property Act and Regulation. We don't cover Ontario, BC, or other provinces yet.
- We can't read the board's mind.If the board's reasoning isn't in the letter you received, we can only assess what's actually written.
- No guarantees.A clean compliance report doesn't mean you'll win at a hearing; a flagged report doesn't mean the board will back down. It means you have the facts.
When NOT to use FineCheck
We're not the right tool for every situation. We'd rather you skip the $15 than spend it on something that won't help. Specifically:
- Fines under $50.The math doesn't work. Even a winning dispute typically costs you the $15 report fee plus your time; just pay it.
- You already have a CDRT hearing scheduled.If you're less than two weeks out from a hearing, hire an Alberta condo lawyer instead of relying on a $15 report.
- You haven't received an actual notice yet. FineCheck reviews the notice you received against your bylaw. If your board has only verbally warned you, there's nothing to check yet.
- The dispute is about contested facts, not process. If you and your board fundamentally disagree about whether the underlying conduct happened (e.g. “the dog was never on common property”), FineCheck can't resolve it. We check whether the notice was procedurally correct — not whether you broke the bylaw.
- You're outside Alberta. We only check Alberta CPA + CPR + Alberta-registered bylaws.
One letter, one bylaw, one cited report. No subscription, no account, no upsell.
If your fine has a CPR s.73.7 issue, the report includes the dispute language. Most owners don't need a lawyer at that point.
Check my fine — $15Who built this
FineCheck was built by people who work professionally with Alberta condominium bylaw enforcement — including the team that builds the software some Alberta condo corporations use to draft and audit their own enforcement notices.
The same compliance checks our team built to make sure notices going out meet Alberta statute are what powers this tool when notices come in. We think both sides of the table benefit when the rules are followed.
Frequently asked questions
Is this legal advice?
No. It's a structured assessment of the documents you upload, with citations to Alberta statutes. For legal advice, hire an Alberta lawyer — we'll tell you when that's the right call.
What if the AI gets it wrong?
Every assessment cites the specific bylaw section and statutory provision it relied on, so you (or a lawyer) can verify the reasoning. If you find a clear error, contact us and we'll re-run the assessment and refund if warranted.
How is this different from asking ChatGPT?
ChatGPT doesn't have your specific bylaw, doesn't know Alberta's Condominium Property Actin detail, and won't cite specific sections. Our system parses your actual bylaw and checks the letter against the actual statute. See a sample report →
How do I know the citations in my report are real?
Every statutory citation in your report — Condominium Property Act, CPR, PIPA — is pegged to verified text in our codebase before the AI generates anything. The model can't freely invent section numbers or case names, and when it's genuinely uncertain about a citation, the report says so explicitly. This matters because real tribunals are now actively rejecting AI-fabricated authorities. In Vasina v. YCC 486, 2026 ONCAT 3 (January 2026), the Ontario tribunal threw out four cases that a self-represented owner had cited from an AI tool — none of them existed. The Tribunal warned that AI-output authorities are unacceptable, and that self-representation isn't an excuse. FineCheck is designed so this can't happen with your dispute submission.
What about my privacy?
You upload your fine letter and your bylaw to generate the report. We use AI services that may process the content on servers in the United States. By using FineCheck you consent to this processing. We do not sell your data, and we delete uploaded documents within 30 days.
Does my board see this?
No. The report is sent only to the email you provide. What you do with it is up to you.
What if my bylaw isn't registered or I can't find it?
Email us — we can usually pull the registered version from Alberta Land Titles for $X extra.
Can I dispute the fine myself with this report?
Yes. The report includes specific dispute language you can use in a written response to the board. Many owners successfully resolve disputes at that stage without escalation. If the board won't budge, you can file at Alberta's CDRT.
Can I file a CDRT case just because the procedure was wrong?
Not on its own. Procedural defects in a fine notice are groundsfor voiding the fine itself — they aren't a standalone complaint. The right framing of a CDRT application is “void this fine because the notice was defective,” with the FineCheck findings as your evidence. Ontario's tribunal recently dismissed a case where an owner challenged a compliance letter on pure procedural grounds without disputing the underlying conduct, and warned that repeat attempts could attract costs (Jackson v. SCC 69, 2026 ONCAT 76). Use your report to make focused legal arguments inside a real fine challenge — not as a freestanding “they did it wrong” grievance.
What's the Alberta CDRT and do I need to go through it?
The Condominium Dispute Resolution Tribunal launched April 1, 2026, and is Alberta's new low-cost forum for specific condo disputes — including fines (Condominium Property Act, s.35). You don't have to go through it. Many fines resolve when an owner writes a response citing the procedural issues our report flags. Filing fee is $150. You can self-represent. Applications must be filed within one year of when you knew about the dispute. Read our full CDRT guide →
Do you offer this for property managers or boards too?
We have a different tool for that — focused on issuing compliant notices rather than checking ones you've received. Contact us if you manage a condo corporation.
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