From the Journal·Checklist·Environmental due diligence

Buying commercial property in Ontario: decide before the environmental condition expires.

An 8-page guided decision workbook for an Ontario commercial-property buyer to test Risk, Price and Timeline and choose a bounded response before waiver.

What is inside

  • 01
    Purpose and useUse the workbook in order and preserve the limits of the tool.
  • 02
    Risk, Price and TimelineComplete five checks, compare three current positions and use the counsel discussion guide for each axis.
  • 03
    Working fileRecord purpose, responsibility, retention and the comparison each source supports.
  • 04
    Cost exercise and five questionsWrite the exposure inputs, compare the threshold and prepare five questions for counsel.
  • 05
    Response pathsCompare proceeding toward waiver, extending and investigating, or renegotiating or stopping.
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Ontario licensedLSO Reg. 91022I
Toronto officeReal estate and corporate practice
English and PortugueseBilingual representation
Plain languageOwner-readable legal writing
Why we built this

Environmental evidence, cost exposure and the condition timetable must work together.

An agreed purchase price can stop describing the real bargain when environmental evidence, cost exposure or the condition timetable remains unresolved.

The tool applies DRG Law's owner-decision method: clarify Risk, Price, Timeline, the decision and the next step before commitment, using the same counsel frame as the Counsel Note and Clause in the Margin.

From Damaris

DRG Law prepared this environmental decision tool to help a commercial-property buyer organize the record before waiver. It does not determine environmental acceptability, legal rights or whether the transaction should close.

Damaris Regina Guimaraes
DRG Law Professional Corporation