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The balcony on my unit (i’m a tenant not an owner) needs to be ripped up, re-waterrpoofed and retiled. There are a lot of very heave and large pot plants and oudoor furniture on the balcony (some were there when we moved in) and they all need to be moved for the repairs to take place.
The strata manager has given us permission to store these things on the common roof terrace during the repairs, but due to the fact that there is a lot to move, most of it heavy and awkward, we are considering getting removalists to help with moving it all.
My question is, who should be responible for the costs of moving all this stuff? the repairs are due to the building not being built properly in the first place, but it isn’t covered under the builders insurance (not sure why), so the building management comittee raised the funds through a special levy. Should they be responsible for moving all the stuff or reimburse us for the moving costs?
IT seems unfair that we should have to bear the cost/inconveniece of all this.
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@Les Dansonne said:
You guys rock!!! After all, she IS only a TENANT. With all her stuff all over COMMON PROPERTY too. She should definitely have to move it herself. You have all finally convinced me. Over and out.What a cheap shot. It’s got nothing to do with her being a tenant. In fact we have suggested she asks for a rent reduction from her landlord to cover her costs and all the disruption. If she were an owner, we couldn’t even suggest that.
What do you want, Les? We tell her how it ISN’T? Tell her to fight this at the CTTT, in a battle that isn’t worth hassle and which she’s bound to lose (or at least not win any financial compensation)? Tell her to barricade her doors and not let the workmen in? And all because you think it’s ‘unfair’ (which it may be but that is not the point).
We try to give people the best advice we can based on how things are and not how we think they should be. If she asks her landlord, they might pay for the stuff to be moved.
If that fails she could admittedly go to Fair Trading and ask them to order a rent reduction but she’d have to consider the consequences of the Fair Trading route – a gamble that might end in her losing her tenancy at the first possible opportunity.
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You guys have lost the plot. A reality check is needed.
@Les Dansonne said:
You guys have lost the plot. A reality check is needed.Les, you are the one who needs the reality check. I will probably be censored (sorry Jimmy), but you remind me of a little child who can not even get a grip on the ‘big picture’.
I hate censoring people but I would hate even more if this descended into one of those websites where people hurl abuse at each other from behind the Sofa of Anonymity. So I am calling for a ceasefire on this one because it doesn’t get us anywhere.
If the advice we have given is demonstrably incorrect (rather than you think the law and/or this writer is stupid) please let us know. It will be published.
If however readers want to tell the world that I am an idiot – I’m afraid that ship has sailed. It’s a well-know fact, as “any fule no“.
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Boy did we get side-tracked on this one. I just went back and looked at the original question as I was writing my column for next weekend.
Here are the facts – some of the heavy stuff is Sarah_1’s, some is her landlord’s.
There’s no question that she is going to have her life disrupted while this work is going on, temporarily diminishing the value of her rental property.
She doesn’t have to touch the landlord’s stuff if she doesn’t want to. So why doesn’t she ask the landlord to pay for all the stuff, including hers, to be moved and replaced by way of compensation for the inconvenience and disruption that she’s having to put up with.
There, that wasn’t so hard …
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