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I live in a strata complex consisting of 3 town houses.
I am doing some internal renovation (adding an additional toilet within my private property, NOT affecting any common property).
There has been a disagreement between the rest of the O/C and me whether I needed to get a bylaw registered regarding that internal renovation. I have proceeded with the renovation against the strata manager’s advice, and against the O/C decision that I needed that bylaw before proceeding.
I basically followed the advice of the Fair Trading, who told me a permission from the O/C was needed only if my renovation affected common property, and I also followed the advice of the LPI who advised me that my renovation was only affecting my private and NOT any common property.
One day when I decide to sell my unit/town house, could I have any problems selling it because of this renovation?
Considering I will have an additional toilet after the renovation, does it have to be added into the contract of sale, and how – or is it optional? Can I just claim to the potential buyers I have this additional toilet without having to include it in the contract?
When I bought this unit, the contract did not have a detailed floor plan, just one box for the entire unit. It did not provide individual details for each specific room.
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db – on the basis that the information you provided in your other post on this subject is correct, although I don’t recall you advising (as you have here) that you’ve already completed the works, if those works have been undertaken by a properly licensed tradesperson who’s provided you with a Certificate of Compliance (CoC), then you need do nothing at the time of a sale other than to, at your discretion, include a copy of that CoC with Contract of Sale.
On the basis of my very recent experiences with sales of Lots (3) in our Plan, where matters of greater significance than yours have been disclosed by the Owners Corporation to the Solicitors/Conveyancers acting for the parties, have been brought to the attention of people conducting Strata Reports, and yet still the sales have been concluded without the slightest hiccup, and in one case with a new Owner claiming no knowledge of disclosed matters (?).
As I concluded elsewhere, either purchasers are in these time prepared to overlook potential impediments to their transaction, or aspects of the sale-of-land system are broken!