Who we are
StrataNotes is a publication of Napacc Inc., a Canadian company based in Victoria, BC. We launched in early 2026 to cover one specific moment: the 2024–2025 reforms to the BC Strata Property Act, the new qualified- preparer rule, and the July 2026 deadline that follows from them. The publication is editorially independent of any property-management company, professional association, or provider network.
We're a small editorial team working with a panel of BC depreciation-report professionals (no financial relationship) to fact-check the harder pieces. Every regulatory claim we make traces to a cited source you can open in a new tab.
How we make money
Reading anything on StrataNotes is free, and always will be. We earn revenue in exactly one way: when a council we've matched with a depreciation-report provider decides to hire that provider, the provider pays us a flat referral fee.
Same flat fee regardless of which provider you pick. We don't earn more if you choose the most expensive quote, the highest-margin provider, or the one that paid us first. We don't earn anything from advertisers, sponsors, property managers, or professional associations.
What that means in practice
- ✓No paid editorial. No provider has paid for inclusion in a guide, a coverage page, or the newsletter — and none ever will.
- ✓No sort by spend. The matching service ranks by fit (region, building type, capacity), not by who pays more. There's nothing to pay more for.
- ✓No star ratings. Star ratings are too easy to manipulate in a low-volume professional category. We do diligence on providers; we don't farm out the work to anonymous reviews.
- ✓No data sale. Quote-request data is shared only with the matched providers. Newsletter subscribers are never sold to anyone.
What we will accept
Referral fees from providers a council we've helped chose to hire. That's the list. If we ever expand it — affiliate links, sponsored sections, newsletter ads — this paragraph changes first, and changes in the open.
Editorial standards
- ✓Cite the regulation. Every legal or compliance claim names the statute, regulation, or municipal bylaw it comes from.
- ✓Update when reality changes. Rule changes, deadline shifts, designation updates — pages get a visible "Updated" date and we publish a short note in the brief.
- ✓Correct in place. Material errors get corrected with a visible note explaining what was wrong and when we fixed it. Trivial fixes (typos, formatting) we just do.
- ✓Council-facing voice. We write for treasurers and council presidents who didn't ask to learn the BC Fire Code. If a paragraph could be by a regulator or by a vendor, we rewrite it.
Reach us
One address for everything for now — hello@stratanotes.ca. Whether you're a council asking about a guide, a provider asking about the directory criteria, a journalist, or someone with a correction or privacy request — write to that address. We aim to respond within 2 business days, and within 5 business days on provider applications.