I suggested to a conference years ago that strata by-laws should include a couple of examples on their front pages of by-laws that the strata committee keenly enforced. Things like: “We take noise compalints seriously” or “we stringently enforce rules in relation to visitor parking”. In other words, the kind of issues that plague some schemes more than others. The reason for not doing this, some strata managers argued, was that it would make the other by-laws look less important and encourage owners to ignore them. To which I say, sometimes it’s better to try something that might be a minor mistake than play it “safe” and do nothing at all.