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Can anyone answer the question regarding the responsibility of the Strata Committee to insure that every resident is safe from accidents that are common property.
For instance, illegal height balustrades, scalding hot water, mould from water ingress, doors that slam so hard they injure people etc.
Quick question. Was the balcony enclosed? In other words, did the owner enclose the balcony with a by-law approving that the owner can do this? Then couldn’t the owner retile it as desired. But. That means they are now responsible for any leak.
This leads so another question. What if an owner replaces a legal height balustrade without a by-law in a genuine desire to save lives of small children? Do they have to remove it?
And does it allow an SC to hold a meeting without notifying all owners? Then act on a motion that hasn’t been presented to owners. Then decide that an owner who is in breach of a number of owners be allowed to ignore that breach. Then, elect this miscreant at an AGM to be on the Strata Committee? Even though they are not an owner?
Like the majority of issues around strata, the end result is always NCAT. This is lunacy. We need to have a Strata ombudsman/woman. Skip wasted time at Fair Trading and get some heavy duty dude to make a ruling.
I can’t tell you how many rules are broken every day by SC members and/or Strata Managers. Why bother even having rules?
There is a Latin saying: caveat emptor! Which means “buyer beware”. The property can be sold with multiple defects without the new owner knowing and the vendor not revealing this.
I tell you where we need a revolution: a dramatic change in strata lawyers’ fees. They’re opportunistic and expensive. Recent experience also involved my writing their proposals. Owners Corporations should not be forced to fork out excessive amounts of money with little evidence that their case will be successful.
The revolution: the OC pays lawyers only if they win.
No way, Jose! We love our BBQs! Sitting outside, sipping wine, chewing the fat, so to speak! Clean up is simple: just use vinegar! No nasty wire brushes.
Jimmy, Jimmy, Jimmy! Please rewrite your comments about cleaning BBQs! Residents in strata should never, ever clean the barbie with a wire brush. My partner was a hairs breath away from dying after eating a spatchcock bone and getting sepsis. It took them 15 months to recover from the complications. The specialist said that sepsis was common, not from small bones, but mainly from the wire in BBQ brushes!
I wanted to put an awning on my balcony that was attached to the common property roof. No you can’t was the SC’s response. You can’t because it would drip on the units below when raining. If I wanted one, I would have to create a bylaw and follow the council’s rules about size and visibility. Guess what, no one can see it as it’s 4 metres from the edge of my lot! Nowhere near anyone else’s property . So I wrote my own bylaw and had it voted on. Now I have the awning.