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Wouldn’t this be taken into account when other financial adjustments are calculated at settlement?
Perhaps you could ask for reimbursement for any monetary outlays you have made to obtain materials for the work carried out?
This subject was discussed at length a couple of months ago.
A drip tray will help, but who is going to be responsible for removing and disposing of the oil in it?
If the car is parked in the lot parking space, it will still be leaking oil onto the floor, which technically is also common property?
I think the property DA would require a minimum number of visitor parking spaces, so renting them out might be a breech of the approval, without council consent.
There would probably already be a by law that prohibits resident parking in those spaces, so your suggestion could create a conflict.
Do you have somewhere you can safely store this material, and buy, say, 6 month’s requirement at a time?
Perhaps just remove the bins to somewhere on common property that does not interfere with other vehicles, and park your car at the back of your space?
Why is a top floor area, which would be the least used, in such poor condition (seemingly in contrast to the lower, more used, floors)?
Is this a maintenance issue which needs to be addressed?
The 1996 model by-laws had a clause
An owner or occupier of a lot must not transport any furniture or large object through or on common property within the building unless sufficient notice has first been given to the executive committee so as to enable the executive committee to arrange for its nominee to be present at the time when the owner or occupier does so.
Seems you just had to notify the committee, not actually get permission. This is not in the 2016 version.
Physically installing such a device “in a strata” should be no more difficult than in a private residence. There would be industry standards or best practices, depending the structure supporting the rails.
A lot would depend on the layout of the building and stairwells. In my block, a chair to the 2nd floor (which has Foyer, G, 1, 2) would require 3 separate installations as the stairs are not continuous.
Unless a building has been designed to accommodate lifts, it would be virtually impossible, or horrendously impossible, to retrofit them.
Another consideration if this is allowed, what happens if another owner decides they should also be entitled to have a similar personal facility?
Common areas can include car parking and storage cages. Easy pickings for a thief to come in at night with a set of bolt cutters. We had this problem a few years ago, which we put down to a departing tenant keeping a key; we changed the locks and the problem stopped.
I live in a medium size block, and mostly wouldn’t know if someone in the building was a resident or intruder.
Perhaps such an event would be covered by insurance?
I live in a block where one owner has 15 out of 21 lots. They run it as their own little self-managed fiefdom.
Most of the readily available information on “volunteers” is along the lines of
Voluntary work includes any work performed by a member of the strata or any person volunteering on it’s behalf. It could be maintenance or renovation inside and outside of the building, or cleaning and gardening communal areas.
It’s common for owners or tenants to work on behalf of the strata company. But if one of these volunteers gets injured, the strata company may need to cover their income as per the PDS.
It seems your coverage may be selling you short. It might be worth looking at your policy to see the exact wording.
You’d have to wonder what they do consider to be “volunteers” then?
It seems very unethical, if not illegal, to sell a product with no apparent beneficiaries?
It might be worth considering that any work delegated to a “volunteer” is first formally approved by the OC and that they are capable and qualified if necessary to carry out the work. The OC is bound to comply with WHS rules.
Would some condition, that the dog must be muzzled at all times whist on common property, be a compromise?