{"id":18145,"date":"2023-06-12T12:08:42","date_gmt":"2023-06-12T19:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/hrca-revokes-mississauga-builders-development-licence\/"},"modified":"2023-06-12T12:08:43","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T19:08:43","slug":"hrca-revokes-mississauga-builders-development-licence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/hrca-revokes-mississauga-builders-development-licence\/","title":{"rendered":"HRCA revokes Mississauga builder\u2019s development licence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/files\/membership-default-internal\/\" class=\"memberhide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/01\/20220718_175041000_iOS.jpg\" alt=\"-\"><\/a><br\/><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>June 12, 2023 \u2013 Pinetree Developments Inc. is no longer licensed to build or sell homes in Ontario, following an inspection by the Home Construction Regulatory Authority (HCRA) and revocation of the company\u2019s licence.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Acting on complaints from purchasers, the HCRA found that Pinetree had unjustifiably raised the price of a home under construction \u2013 despite a signed contract \u2013 and then attempted to resell that same property at a higher price when the original purchaser refused the increase and launched litigation. The company also falsified building permit applications, failed to enrol properties with Tarion as part of its warranty obligations, ignored City of Mississauga orders and repeatedly failed to respond to HCRA inspection letters and compliance orders.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In December 2022, the HCRA commenced an inspection into Pinetree\u2019s business operations, which uncovered a series of unethical and illegal activities:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<li>Despite a binding Agreement of Purchase and Sale (APS) on a Mississauga property, Pinetree sought to significantly increase the price.<\/li>\n<li>Pinetree refused to close the transaction and, despite numerous extensions, construction is not complete. The HCRA cannot confirm the cause for the delays because Pinetree failed to produce documents and respond to the HCRA\u2019s concerns despite a Compliance Order requiring them to do so.<\/li>\n<li>After the purchaser refused to agree to the price increase, Pinetree listed the property for sale at a higher price on Realtor.com, despite the binding APS and a Certificate of Pending Litigation being registered.<\/li>\n<li>In order to obtain building permits from the City of Mississauga, Pinetree falsely identified the name and credentials of another builder, without their knowledge.<\/li>\n<li>Pinetree has started construction on or already built at least five homes without enrolling the homes with Tarion, as required by law.<\/li>\n<li>The HCRA received a complaint from the City of Mississauga indicating that Pinetree began construction on a home before the City issued a building permit. Once the City discovered that Pinetree had done so, it issued an order to immediately stop construction. Pinetree did not. The City then issued a second order but Pinetree still continued to build.<\/li>\n<li>Pinetree has never provided the HCRA with any documents or information to address the HCRA\u2019s concerns.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0These are not the first infractions for Pinetree. In 2018, the company was charged and convicted in Provincial court for illegally acting as a vendor of a new home. Patricia Perruzza, a principal, officer, and director\u00a0 for Pinetree, was also charged and convicted of two counts of illegally building and selling a new home, in relation to a previous licence held by Pinetree.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cPinetree had the opportunity to appeal the HCRA\u2019s formal notice that their licence would be revoked but did not do so,\u201d Moir explains. \u201cUnder those circumstances, the licence revocation is automatic and immediate.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {\n\t  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n\t  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n\t  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n\t  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&appId=761779333850340&version=v2.0\";\n\t  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n\t}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-5143531171910809\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- News - Bottom -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-5143531171910809\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"8320848692\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.canadiancontractor.ca\/canadian-contractor\/hrca-revokes-mississauga-builders-development-licence\/1003292677\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=hrca-revokes-mississauga-builders-development-licence\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This article was originally posted at Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 12, 2023 \u2013 Pinetree Developments Inc. is no longer licensed to build or sell homes in Ontario, following an &#8230; <a title=\"HRCA revokes Mississauga builder\u2019s development licence\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/hrca-revokes-mississauga-builders-development-licence\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about HRCA revokes Mississauga builder\u2019s development licence\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1090],"tags":[1091],"class_list":["post-18145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-canadian-contractor","tag-canada","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}