@JimmyT said:
It doesn’t make any difference if there were changes made to common property or changes that were made impacted on common property – if the person who made the changes is no longer in the building and there is no special resolution or written contract passing responsibility to the next owner, then the Owners Corp is ultimately responsible – for the simple reason that someone has to be.
Totally agree but consider it an open invitation for unscrupulous owner to do alterations without approval and then down the line when something goes wrong expect the OC to pick up the bill. I cannot imagine a rule so designed to disadvantage the honest owner and so encourage the cheats that when I first read about it I just didn’t believe it ( I regret to say I now do believe it and have sympathy for owners who get lumbered with unexpected costs over which they have no control).
At least in QLD alterations are the owners problem unless their is a clause in the bylaws saying otherwise. The direct opposite of NSW.