@JimmyT said:
Hi DTAI wonder why you are assuming this bird owner is you – LadyJ did say this particular bird had only been acquired recently.
Also, it’s up to the tenant to seek any required permission for a pet, not the landlord – they can’t be held directly responsible for the behaviour of a tenant’s pet (unless there is a complaint and they don’t do anything about it.)
Hi Jimmy,
I don’t know how recent she thinks is ‘recent’, but I do know that a previous post of hers indicates a feature that matches the building I live in, and also about a day before this bird post went up a lady in our building asked me if we were owners or tenants, apropos of nothing, while I was entering the building (and also while trying to urgently navigate one of those button-pushing menus with a service provider on my phone – actually, my trying to listen for instructions at the time may potentially be the source of ‘unapproachable’).
In terms of strata – when the rental agent holds all the cards in terms of knowing who to contact at strata and how, and when we’re meant to contact them for repairs first (whether it’s common property or not), how are we supposed to know at what point they stop being a go-between and we have to do everything ourselves? Happy to do it ourselves, but contact details or any information… at all… would have been nice. Anyway, that’s in the past tense – will definitely keep your words in mind for the future and see how we can be sure whether we have permission or not.
If it’s not us, no harm no foul – at least I’ve learnt something new (yet more reason to not trust rental agents, sigh).