Dear Condo Smarts: Do strata corporations have to file tax returns? We are a 24-unit townhouse complex. Our budget is limited to insurance, landscaping and building maintenance. Our strata fees are $250 a month and we always break even on the year. An accounting office told us not to bother as we don't pay taxes. We're also confused about how to give owners receipts for the home renovation tax credit.

Q We are replacing the vinyl flooring in our kitchen and considering cork flooring. We like the look and feel of cork and have found lots of styles to choose from that have a dark finish, but we are wondering about how well it holds up in a kitchen. -- Sue, North Vancouver

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Kora Sevier has spent a lifetime studying and celebrating colour -- and that's evident when you step into her home.

Q Last year, my onion planting produced only small bulbs. What varieties produce good-sized bulbs in your garden?

It was more than eight years ago that I wrote in this space about the way the Olympics might shape Vancouver as a city.

Concord Pacific has been a lead participant in the downtown Vancouver skyline transformation since Expo 86. Its 2010 Winter Games contribution is commensurate to that history: "Concord Place" is the largest open-to-all community celebration organized by the private sector. The Vancouver Sun asked company president Terry Hui to comment on its "host" activities and, of course, its quarter-century of putting people into homes on the north shore of False Creek. He writes:

Will the Winter Games help or hinder the metropolitan Vancouver real estate market, or hardly have any affect? Opinion, of course, is divided. Who can know the future?

NORTH VANCOUVER -- 1904 -- 1320 Chesterfield Avenue

At The Vancouver Sun, the homebodies among us are treating the Winter Olympics as an opportunity to sponsor a conversation about the Vancouver home.

Size does indeed matter. Just ask the Surrey homeowners troubled by the 4,000-plus-square-foot home overshadowing their rancher. Or the folks who can't wait to move into a 270-square-foot rental in East Vancouver.