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Greetings, Christmas Greetings’, in fact.
Where I live, when the building was new 40 years ago, 10 units were each given Exclusive Use of 10 outdoor car spaces through creation of a Special By-Law.
Other units have garages on title, other units have no car space or garage. There are 34 units.
The units with the Exclusive Use car spaces pay no extra levies for them (and have no extra unit entitlements). These units are bought and sold with the expectation of having a ‘car space’.
The problem is the car spaces need to be repaired / spruced-up because the concrete is cracked in places and, of course, the owners who don’t know any different, expect the wider Owners Corporation to pay for everything. I have said it’s time for these lucky owners to pay more levies to reflect their car spaces and also pay for the repairs needed. But I have also suggested it is probably time to make their ‘ownership of the spaces ‘ more formal, which I thought they would jump at. Not so, all this all has made me about as popular as… well, you can guess.
Am I right? Shouldn’t they pay for the repairs to THEIR car spaces which make their units more valuable and shouldn’t they pay extra levies for them? (Off street parking spaces are more desirable at our strata than the average, for numerous reasons.)