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@petya said:
So you are saying that potentially with the by-law you’ve mentioned landlords may be charged for the rubbish that is left by tenant who moved out? Just wondering whether the situation is different from the one if an owner sold their house, left rubbish on common property and moved out.
When you sell your house, you are selling the building and its relevant land. There should be a clause in the sale contract that stipulates the condition of the property, and dumping rubbish before moving out could constitute a breech of the contract.
When you sell a strata apartment, there would probably be a similar clause covering the interior condition of same, but it probably couldn’t encompass common property issues. I’m not sure how a SC could recoup any clean up costs in that situation. It would be different to a tenant moving out?
I think that the Act defines the level of cover which has to be provided, based on a worse case scenario where the building requires complete rebuilding back to its original condition. In an older building, a minor incident in one lot could well affect the integrity of the whole building. Increases in sum assured would be based on increases in the cost of doing such work, not on the market value of the property.
The Standard By-Laws required that the OC/EC had to be notified in advance if any furniture etc was to be moved through common property. Would failure to do so affect the owner’s liability, or the failure of the OC to have a representative to supervise the movement reduce the owner’s liability?
I am in an early 1990s block, 4 levels with ground floor parking/storage and 3 levels with 21 units.
As built, the fire “protection” comprised a hose reel on the ground floor connected to the domestic water supply.
Following a fire in the storage area about 12 years ago, the council served orders requiring a 100mm mains riser with hydrants on each level, and an extension of the hose reel system to each level. An automatic diesel powered booster pump and fire brigade booster connections had to be installed for this system. Also, each unit had to be fitted with hard-wired mains powered smoke detectors.
An inspection has to be carried out every 12 months by a certified inspector, who lodges a statement with council.
But by-laws can’t be readily enforced on “visitors”?
Is there any official definition of a “visitor”? In the absence of any limitations in the By-laws, are there any other implied restrictions on how often/how long non-residents can park in these spaces? What would distinguish these workers to not be “visitors”.
Perhaps the details are required for signatories to a bank account if the OC has one in its own name?. I’ve had to provide this as a signatory to Incorporated Associations.
Perhaps you could check with the council?
Would a council DA be required for this?
We have an habitual resident parker in our block’s visitors’ area. She ignores warning notices. Her “logic” is that her boyfriend is the occupant (tenant) of the building and she is entitled to “visit” him all night, seven days a week. Unfortunately, our By-laws do not define limitations on visitor parking.
Would adding non-attached partitioning to a lounge room to provide extra sleeping accommodation contravene any rules?
I am quite surprised at the amount of mail that comes to our block addressed just to the street address with no unit number included. Sometimes it goes into the Strata mailbox, sometimes a “lottery” to see which resident’s letter box gets it, sometimes just left in the “overflow” open slot.
There is also the mail which has been incorrectly addressed (usually previous residents) or incorrectly delivered (a different street number, same unit/street number in a different street, same street number/name in a different suburb. This invariably gets left in an open location on top of the boxes or in the adjacent gardens; do people believe that the postie will pick it up and take it away next time he comes around? And a fair bit of this mail just ends up in the garbage bins.
There is a lot of “secure” mail in both these categories, no wonder it gets misused.
A lot would depend on the location of this store room in relation to the existing power supply circuits. Most store rooms only have provision for low wattage lighting, and the wiring may not be suitable for running high wattage appliances. There would be a lot more involved than simply hooking up a meter to the existing installation. In our block, each car space and store room has its own light circuit connected to the relevant unit’s meter, but the wiring has a very low power rating.
A quite popular window “treatment” in Sydney, in units with large glass areas, is aluminium foil. It would probably be much more noticeable from outside than bubble wrap. And probably more effective as a heat barrier.
A few units in our block (same owner) were leased to Defence Housing a few years back. I don’t know if DH is still “recruiting” but they did run advertising campaigns for properties at the time.