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Thanks for asking about costs BlackHotel.
It’s not an inexpensive endeavour, but my apartment would have been otherwise uninhabitable with the amount, nature, and duration of noise.
The acoustic engineer cost > $8K and that included initial week-long monitoring, reports (and clarifications), and retesting after the upstairs lot owner had complied with the NCAT ruling.
My legal team cost a lot more than that.
I was not successful with my costs order, but my understanding is that they rarely are. I was fully aware of my decisions around costs, but it was more important to me to have a home that I could live in, sleep without being continually woken up, and to feel comfortable in my own home.
I learned a lot about strata law during this process as well.
The Flat Chat podcast has been paramount to my confidence levels and motivation to learning about my rights in strata.