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first time here.
Hi all, my name is Rob and my property is with nswstrata. My property in Telopea was invaded by bird mites( they bites like fleas ), and the source was from the roof gutter. I send pictures of my tenants young boy getting seriously bitten to the nswstrata manager and the executive committee and i request them to install bird spikes / gutter guard so this kind of things will not happen again. The response i’m getting is that they are waiting for approval, and months after months no reply. Now they gave me options like the corporate pays half the cost and owner(me) pays half and only around my unit which i said ok let’s do this. They still told me to wait and it is not progressing at all (original request submitted in Jan and now is June). And another thing is this guy in the committee is suggesting that wait for tenants in my unit getting bit again then they will act on it, until then let’s hope that the bugs wont return again.
need some serious advice here.
Thanks
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For a start, if the bird mites are as a result of something (or something wrong with) the common property, then you are not responsible for half the cost, the owners corporation is responsible for all of the cost. So I suggest that in any correspondence you make it clear that you are not paying for any of it.
If there is a genuine concern re mites or bugs or whatever infesting a lot because of a flaw in the common property, then the OC has to deal with it as a priority, not least of all because it is affecting the health and safety of residents. If it is affecting your tenants there is also a concern that you could lose them, with consequential loss of rent.
Write to the OC and say that you raised this in January and to date there has been no response, and that their failure to act may have a detrimental effect on the health and safety of residents. Unless they take action you will make an application to NCAT for an order for the work to be carried out.
Incidentally another thing you might want to think about is getting a pest controller in to inspect the gutters and give his opinion about how to deal with it.