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RECO Spending Limits  

There is a limit to the amount of money that you are required to spend to meet RECO upgrades.  You need not spend more than:

• 0.75% of the property sales price when a single structure of two housing units or less is sold or transferred;

•  0.75% of the property sales price for each structure when a property with more than one structure of two housing units or less is sold or transferred;

• $0.50 per square foot when any one structure with three or more housing units is sold; or

• 1% of renovation costs when a property is undergoing a renovation of $50,000 or more. 

If the expenditure limit is reached, and the property is sold again, all remaining measures must be met by the next buyer.

Example: Attic insulation is typically the most expensive RECO measure.   If the Maximum Expenditure Limit for a property is $2,200, and the Homeowner spends $2,200 to insulate the attic, then the remaining RECO items would roll over to the next homeowner at the next sale of the property.  

If, however, the homeowner only spends $500 on all other measures, the homeowner is required to spend AT LEAST another $1,700 to insulate the attic.

The responsibility for RECO compliance cannot be transferred more than once.

Back to RECO Guide page

  Updated July 28, 2005 

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