Hi Jimmy, I had a read of the post including a reference to unauthorised sliding doors (post 7) and your suggestions (post 5) and was fascinated. Our OC has struggled with this issue and found no way to address it. Your posts make a very strong case for a bylaw and sets out a good method for protecting OC’s against unauthorized changes.
So if a strata enacts a bylaw that specifies that:
“owners are responsible for any unauthorized changes to common property, their repair and maintenance and the results of any damage done to common property and personal property as a result of the unauthorized work (and that) the responsibility passes to the next owner if the unit is sold”
Then responsibility and presumably expense passes to all future owners but in the absence of such a bylaw the responisbility and expense reverts to the OC. Have I read this correctly?
And if I am drawing the correct conclusion what you are saying is a very strong case for a bylaw