May I ask where you got this information from, about fines being unable to be applied to your home and or property. Does this situation apply to both strata and corporations, being that corporations are usually leased land from the native bands.
sorry Sandy, didn't see this post earlier. Read the Strata Act - fines are NOT listed as something they can lien you for.
http://www.bclaws.ca/civix/document/LOC/complete/statreg/--%20S%20--/Strata%20Property%20Act%20[SBC%201998]%20c.%2043/00_Act/98043_06.xml#section116
Certificate of Lien
116 (1) The strata corporation may register a lien against an owner's strata lot by registering in the land title office a Certificate of Lien in the prescribed form if the owner fails to pay the strata corporation any of the following with respect to that strata lot:
(a) strata fees;
(b) a special levy;
(c) a reimbursement of the cost of work referred to in section 85;
(d) the strata lot's share of a judgment against the strata corporation;
(e) [Repealed 1999-21-25.]
(2) The strata corporation may register a lien against any strata lot, but only one strata lot, owned by an owner as owner developer, by registering in the land title office a Certificate of Lien in the prescribed form if the owner developer fails to pay an amount payable to the strata corporation under section 14 (4) or (5), 17 (b) or 20 (3).
(3) Subsections (1) and (2) do not apply if
(a) the amount owing has, under section 114, been paid into court or to the strata corporation in trust,
(b) arrangements satisfactory to the strata corporation have been made to pay the money owing, or
(c) the amount owing is in respect of a fine or the costs of remedying a contravention.
(4) On registration the certificate creates a lien against the owner's strata lot in favour of the strata corporation for the amount owing.
(5) The strata corporation's lien ranks in priority to every other lien or registered charge except
(a) to the extent that the strata corporation's lien is for a strata lot's share of a judgment against the strata corporation,
(b) if the other lien or charge is in favour of the Crown and is not a mortgage of land, or
(c) if the other lien or charge is made under the Builders Lien Act.
(6) On receiving the amount owing, the strata corporation must within one week remove the lien by registering in the land title office an Acknowledgment of Payment in the prescribed form.