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Why shouldn’t owners be responsible for cleaning their car space floors if they are part of the lot, the same as they are expected to clean common property walls and floors within the unit itself?
Just some general personal observations about comments here, if I may:
FAAC manufactures electric power drives for sliding or swinging gates. The key would be provided to disconnect the gate from the drive in the event of power or motor failure; the gate can then be operated by hand to open/close. This does not constitute an “emergency”.
Any proper “emergency exit” cannot be power operated, or require a key or button to open.
Even if the Strata insurance agrees to accept the claim, it can still come back to you to recoup those costs if it determines you were at fault.
The post refers to a “gate”, which I assume means an entrance from the street to the whole property, rather than a “door” which would give access to the building. Surely there would be one or more equivalent pedestrian “gates” which would comply with safety regulations?
Dog/cat poo is an annoying issue, but hardly a big one
If a cleaner, regardless of age or gender is traumatised by a small amount of waste matter, perhaps they should not be doing cleaning work.
As for “supporting” the cleaner, the employer should be providing them with suitable tools, and PPE, to carry out such work.
The OC should have some sort of agreement/contract with the cleaning company stipulating what level of work is to be carried out on a regular basis, with possible provision for “extras” at agreed rates.
She is a cleaner. If she can’t handle a bit of dog/cat poo, perhaps she should be looking at a less stressful job. Her rights? Well perhaps her employer should be providing the correct equipment to handle the task.
The strata insurance would have Public Liability cover which would be appropriate in this instance.
I had similar problems getting NBN installed in my GF apartment in a 25 year old 3 storey block. NBN guy came out and discovered there was no cabling into my apartment, other than old copper wires from a terminal block in the basement. He didn’t know where the NBN hub was located, and couldn’t find any trace of where it might have been. He just shrugged his shoulders and left. The next guy came a few weeks later and repeated the scenario. He did tell me they would have to run a cable from the hub(which he couldn’t find) and I would need the owners permission, I am the owner, so next they tell me i need OC permission because they will have to drill through CP walls and floors to get to me. So I asked for a plan so I could get OC approval. Waited a couple of weeks, and when I followed it up, they just another installation tech out. It was now 4 months since I lodged the application with my ISP.
Then I saw some advertising for 4G wireless broadband (no 5G in my area yet). It was not as fast as a base NBN plan, but after seeing so many reports of how unreliable it was, figured I didn’t have much to lose. So I signed up with Optus, took a modem home from the shop, set it up in 10 minutes and it has been working quite adequately ever since. Cost is comparable with NBN plans too.
Some new-to-apartment-dwellers don’t understand they can’t automatically do this so unless it get bought to their attention they won’t know or won’t change. Being nice is the start and letting them know the rules, that they are not the first and here’s what others have since done is a good start.
Parking rules, and other rules relating to the property, should be included in the By-Laws which every owner/tenant should have a copy of.
If each unit has its own individual power supply, this would suggested each one would be hooked up to the unit’s meter/switchboard.
In previous similar situations I have encountered there was a cover over the outlet which could be padlocked to stop other residents “stealing” incorrect supplies, or there was an over-riding switch in the unit itself.
I always found it was more convenient to keep my washing machine in the bathroom, they were usually big enough in those days.
We had a similar problem in our block recently.
When we confiscated the key safe from its common property “hide-away”, the tenants in question superglued the building door locks open. We subsequently tracked the “visitors” to a number of units.
We put up notices stating that anyone entering the building without a security key, unless admitted via the security intercom, would be reported to the police and charged with trespass. This reduced the turnover until we could get the offending tenants evicted.
In NSW your building should normally have a building policy with sufficient sum insured to cover a full knockdown and rebuild, regardless of the cause. Perhaps the same applies in Victoria?
Additional “catastrophe insurance” seems like a bit of a scam to extract more dollars from you.
@JimmyT said:
Perhaps the smart move would be to establish protocols and by-law templates that would allow owners to install the necessary meters and cabling at their own expense. Most cars aren’t used between 10pm and 7am – plenty of time for a top-up.
A lot would depend on the location and layout of the parking areas, but it may be more efficient (financially and operationally) for the OC to have a basic single “bulk distribution” system installed capable of servicing all lots, rather than have individual owners running their own individual supplies?
I’m sure Google would find you suppliers or fire protection specialists in your area.
My understanding is that in NSW, at least, usually any outstanding or pre-paid service fees are pro-rataed between the buyer and seller at the time of settlement. Any outstanding levies would be deducted from the sale price, and paid to the SC (or other service provider) or the buyer; levies pre-paid beyond the settlement date would be credited to the buyer.