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Here’s a thought. The legislation says that owners corps can interfere with “dealing” with strata lots – a clause that will be used against us when the Government caves in to the short-stay rental spin doctors (aided and abetted by City of Sydney). We can only control common property.
So what’s to stop owners corps permitting use of common property only for permanent residents for “safety and security” reasons. Electronic fobs for doors and gates would keep non-residents out of car parks, swimming pools, gyms – maybe even lifts.
As soon as you get a hint that an apartment is being used for short-stay lets, you cancel their fobs for everything except the front door (because that allows access to their lot).
It might not stand up to a strong legal test but it would put a spoke in their wheels for many months. Disrupt the disruptors, say I!