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Which floor is the offending balcony on ?
Electricity authorities do not like unqualified people wandering around in meter rooms, this is why they have restricted locks on them.
Individual units should have their own separate SWITCH BOXES which would normally trip out first if there is any problem in the unit. These should be accessible to the occupant, usually inside the unit.
I was always under the impression that Telstra (or whoever provides the service) was responsible for the phone line up to the outlet in the wall, and even the phone itself if they supplied it.
Any “wires under the carpet” would be a subscriber’s addition and their responsibility.
This has been a regular occurrence in our block.
Why aren’t owners/agents required to get a clearance from the OC before refunding bond money?
One problem we have in our complex when people move out, is not so much dumping rubbish, but actually putting it in the bins. The Council allows us the equivalent of 1/2 large bin per unit per week, so with 20 units we have 10 bins. Normally this is adequate but when people move out they simply fill up ALL the available bins, with small furniture, bedding, clothing appliances,etc, leaving no room for other resident’s rubbish. This becomes a real problem if the rubbish is dumped early the rubbish pick up cycle.
The problem in larger blocks is identifying who actually owns the offending vehicle, and/or which unit it relates to.
OCs can’t just go to a police station or the RMS and ask who the owner is. Quite often the “owner” has a different registered address anyway. The only way is to be around when the vehicle is driven in to the building, and then try and discretely follow the offender to his/her front door. Who is going to do this?
Leaving notes doesn’t have much effect, the owners know they can’t easily be traced. I imagine an NTC would need a name to be valid ?
Sadly, I think you will find that the 99% know they cannot be towed, wheel- clamped or fined, and that is why they continue parking this way.
Causing some sort of non-illegal inconvenience is the only way to deter them. The threat of a trespass charge for repeat offences MAY work, as that is enforcable, although at inconvenience to you.
Just print your own, and affix them with a water soluble glue so you can’t be accused of causing damage.
@PeterC said:
- Chemical Free Cleaning – Micro-fiber & Electrolysed water technology
All very good. Great to have green cleaning but I do wonder about this item. Electrolysed water is an explosive mixture of hydrogen and oxygen! Perhaps that is not what they mean?
Check out the term in Wikipedia for an explanation.
Is the “neighbour” an adjoining lot, or adjoining property ?
@struggler said:
But what do you do when you don’t have a window to open? I like many strata dwellers only have large glass sliding doors. I do have one window but in order to have cross ventilation, one would need an opening on the opposite side of the unit. I don’t fancy leaving my balcony door ajar at night being grond floor. So perhaps this is a design flaw in strata complexes. Perhaps future strata development plans should include louvre windows alongside the balcony doors to provide ventilation without the need to keep doors open.I got around this problem but fitting pin style window locks at the top of the sliding doors, with holes drilled in the top track frame. I can open the doors wide enough to let air in, but not a body. A similar lock on the OUTSIDE of the door, at the other end, can be used to prevent someone from trying to lift the door out of the tracks. Sliding screens keeps the insects out.
We had a similar problem in our block last year when a car was left in the car wash for 3 months.
This car had been a regular “visitor” for some time previous, so it was known to be associated with a resident of the building, but there was no way of telling who. Notices on the car and around the parking area failed to get a response.
It eventually transpired that the owner was in the Defence Force and had been posted overseas. He asked a friend (non resident) to park the car in the building, and the wash bay was the most convenient spot.
Our OC is self managed, with one person owning about 75% of the lots, who is quite happy to allow his tenants to use the visitors spaces for overflow parking.
I find it very irresponsible that a fire service maintenance contractor would remove any (let alone all) of the fire extinguishers from a building for any period of time (let alone two weeks) to test them.
At best they would have an exchange system, simply swapping over an old one for a certified unit, or a loan unit which is left in place until the building’s unit is ready.
@JimmyT said:
A knock on the door (or a note under it) and a very polite inquiry along the lines of “I keep hearing strange noises at these times – do you have any idea what it might be?” could solve a lot of problems before you start involving the cops or the council.
I had a similar problem recently with an upstairs neighbor (a divorcee mum with a couple of uni aged kids). Sounded like they had some gym gear with things falling/dropping on the floor at regular intervals. I just mentioned casually to her when I passed her in the car park one day that I could hear these noises in the building, but not sure what they were or where they were coming from (sounds like this can actually travel in strange ways in buildings). She said she hadn’t heard them, didn’t know where they could be coming from, but I haven’t heard them since.
As for the “brothel” suggestions, I understand that in NSW one girl working from home does not constitute a brothel and is quite legal; two girls in the same premises is a different situation.
What about all the dust and leaves that the gardener might blow into a private parking spot as a result of cleaning common roperty?
Would the owner be able to claim compensation from the OC for cleaning up the mess? On a couple of past occasions I have had to ask our cleaner to wash my car after he attcked our undercover parking lot with his blower/