I can tell you that it has been established in the Supreme Court here in NSW that pursuing developers for defects claims is not considered maintaining and reparing common property as required under strata law. In other words, the OC has to fix it regardless of what else is going on – they just need to make sure they follow correct procedures with assessments,quotes and contracts so that there can be no quibbles when they do make a claim.
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