We have a few fascinating questions on the Forum this week but the most intriguing one concerns a new, staged development where the developer has managed to hang on to the voting power of the un-built units without paying the levies for them.
Is that legal, asks our Flatchatter, who is rightly miffed that said developer has used his powers to elect himself and a family member to the offices of the strata committee without paying for the voting privileges he now wields.
You can read the legal opinion on that HERE.
And then there’s the apartment owner who’s committee doesn’t want to even discuss the common property maintenance access hatch in his bathroom that they have unofficially decided to permanently close.
He wants to renovate the bathroom – but what happens to his cupboards, bath and tiles if they’re in the way, there’s a plumbing emergency and they need access in a hurry?
You can put in your ten cents worth on that HERE
Elsewhere in the Forum
- Druggies are ruining or lives and damaging common property. What can we do? That’s HERE.
- We have strict and stringent flooring by-laws but the committee is approving major changes “on the nod”. That’s HERE.
- Must owners be informed that there are NCAT actions being taken against the committee? That’s HERE.
- Can the committee allocate a visitor parking space for the use of one owner, and without compensation? That’s HERE
- What ever happened to Fair Trading’s Strata Living guide? That’s HERE.
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