B.C’s Civil Resolution Tribunal has fined an obscenity-screaming strata neighbour $2,500 for nuisance and aggressive conduct.
Tribunal member Micah Carmody said Jordana Candace Isenberg had subjected Parveen Dhillon to noise, harassment, smoking odour and other disturbances shortly after she had moved in in August 2022, according to an amended decision released July 15.
“Ms. Isenberg was waiting in the hallway to 'scream obscenities' at her...” Carmody said.
Isenberg allegedly screamed at Dhillon for leaving a balcony light shining into unit 402, stalkers in the building, highway traffic noise and other issues, Carmody said. Dhillon said the behaviour continued until Isenberg was evicted one year later.
Woman video recorded neighbour through windows
Carmody said Dhillon’s evidence included extensive documentation of the formal complaints she made to the strata. She claimed Isenberg shouted at her from unit 402’s balcony or through the walls, banged on walls, and repeatedly slamming her doors.
Dhillon was also subjected to Isenberg shouting profanity at her from her balcony on a weekly, if not daily, basis. Police were called regularly as a result of Isenberg’s behaviour, Carmody said.
“In March 2023, [Dhillon] complained that Ms. Isenberg had slid aside the glass partition between their balconies and was video recording her through her windows,” Carmody said.
Dhillon's complaints continued from September 2022 through August 2023. Carmody said the situation became “so intolerable” that the ownership voted unanimously in favour of spending up to $50,000 to bring a legal action against Isenberg and the suite's owner, Troy Allan Hale, in order to evict the woman.
Hale, who evicted Isenberg in August 2023, was also named in the complaint to the tribunal, but Carmody dismissed those allegations.
Residents felt unsafe around woman
Another strata resident also complained to the tribunal in a written statement describing verbal abuse, yelling and swearing in common areas, daily stomping, wall-banging, and profanity-shouting off the balcony “at all hours of the day and night."
Residents felt “unsafe” around Isenberg, who interrupted their sleep on a nightly basis, said Carmody.
The tribunal member said the law expects strata owners to tolerate some noise in their living arrangements.
“However, I find the noise that Ms. Isenberg subjected Ms. Dhillon to was excessive and amounted to more than mere inconvenience or discomfort. I find that an ordinary person would not tolerate that level of noise, wall-banging and shouting on a near-daily basis,” Carmody said.
“Nor would an ordinary person tolerate being filmed through their windows by a neighbour.”
Carmody found Isenberg liable for nuisance for the noise she made and her overall aggressive conduct toward Dhillon between August 2022 and August 2023.
