@JimmyT said:
Specific wording aside, – because that’s down to whoever drafts it – any special resolution exclusive use by-law will or should have clauses establishing that part of the trade-off for allowing exclusive use is that the beneficiary becomes responsible for the transferred properties’ upkeep.
I thinkyou are missing the point that Whale and I are making. At the moment in NSW unauthorized alterations can fall on the OC to repair the changes or restore to origional configuration.
Whales bylaw would reverse this generally for the strata complex such that any alteration not authorized and approved with a siuitable bylaw would remain the reasponsibilty of the current owner and subsequent owner to maintain (instead of at present defaulting to strata on sale). This would solve at least on of OP issues.
To me this seems so obvious that it should be included in the NSW gov model bylaws, then at least you have the likehod of it being included in 99% of any new strata that is registered as most use the model bylaws with a few additions.