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    Boronia
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      I live in a block of 21 units, where one person owns about 70% of the entitlements and has permanent proxies for a couple of other units. I am the only owner/occupier in the block. There is one on-title car space for each unit, and seven common property “visitor” spaces, one of which doubles as a car wash.

      This owner has decided that his tenants should be able to use the visitor spaces, as many tenants have two cars and on street parking in the vicinity is very limited, esp at night. As a result, there are rarely any spaces available for bona fide visitors, and tenants tie up the car wash for days at a time (one was there for 3 months while he went overseas).

      At the last AGM I suggested that these vehicles should be “registered” with the OC, at least for security purposes if there is a need to contact the owners in an emergency. This would be a form of compliance with By-Law 2. But this owner wouldn’t have a bar of the idea. In fact he is now suggesting the OC should rip out the on-title storage lockers (at least the ones he owns, but never maintains, and have just become dumping grounds for tenants moving out) located in one corner of the car park level to provide even more parking.

       

      The block is self managed (guess by who), there is no SM (he sacked the original SM a few years ago), and general compliance with the Act is non existent. The accounts are in a mess (refuses requests to have them audited), there are no EC meetings, records of meetings are vague, even minutes have been produced of an AGM that never took place. Everything seems to revolve around his convenience.

       

      As I obviously can’t get any OC support, I am open to suggestions as to what to do. One of the owners, who is on my side, is a lawyer with Strata experience, and even he has said that there is little I can do without going to a lot of expense.

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