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Thanks for the response.
It’s a Class A unit. It’s a repair/maintenance issue. The external terrace/courtyard doors no longer close properly and can’t even be locked. They seem to be out of alignment or maybe the rollers have worn out. This is a ground floor unit and the doors open to a private walled terrace/courtyard area. The unit above has a balcony instead and a similar sliding door arrangement to that balcony.
The OC manager has now told me maintenance of these doors is an owner responsibility because “The door is not typically considered to be a common area issue, they form part of the unit that the unit occupier has sole access to, therefore the doors would be considered to be the individual owners issue to repair.”
It seems the OC manager considers “sole access” to be a reason for the OC not to maintain them. The balcony doors would be sole access too.
Is the OC manager correct?