KP, if you could me a complex with honest owners who will do the right thing, please let me now as that is where is would like to live. In my complex, I know that owners have made changes within their units without permission. It is impossible to police even if we did have a well functioning EC. To ensure no changes are made we would have to inspect all units regularly referring to the original plans to check.
I am an honest owner but I think I will now jump on the band wagon. I am tired of being the Lone Ranger. What can the EC do to me when they don’t take action against those who they know have done something? I could go and put scaffolding out the front and what can they do? When others have left building materials and skips outside on common property for weeks and that’s been ok by our EC even when I complained. But what can you expect from a system where it states there are by laws that are to be followed, but there is no obligation or responsibility to enforce those by laws, but if you do make a change and the EC/OC let it go, then the other owners are responsible for your illegal handiwork should it all go awry. So people like me are left to fork out because people have called in a favor or rang uncle Jimmy to come over and rip out a wall, change the layout, change the windows. A system where there were by laws that had to be enforced, where there a responsibility to ensure they are enforced, and to make all owners present and subsequent responsible for any changes within their lot, with or without permission, in a complex with honest residents who do the right thing, that is where I would like to live.