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I have an AGM coming up next week and the SM has a motion for a by-law to give exclusive use of window locks to owners, so they can maintain or change them as they wish.
Is this necessary? As I understood it these are not common property, the OC were only responsible to ensure the building was compliant as at 13/3/18?
We have a few blanket by-laws paid for by the OC. They cover bathrooms and kitchens, solar panels, decking, air-conditioners, hot water heaters and flooring.
When an owner wants to renovate they fill out the pro-forma and attached their detailed design. Once approved at a GM they then need to register it at their cost (~$100) with LPI.
Pretty much when anyone wants to do something that requires a by-law and others may wish to similar in the future we go down this road. It’s a great system.
In my building its against fire regulations to leave your front door open, if that’s the case in yours they are in breach.
Could you at least solve the loud TV issue by bringing this up with the OC?
Your survey needs more options…
In my opinion an OC shouldn’t be able to dictate how a person uses their primary place of residence (renting out whilst home or on holidays, as was the person in this story).
However investments solely used for short term lets should definitely be able to be banned with a by-law. In fact I think they should be forced to undergo the same scrutiny (Zones, OHS compliance, insurance etc.) as any hotel or traditional B&B.
@JimmyT said:
Owners corporations can put the 10-year plan together themselves or engage independent experts to prepare the plan.Hmmm. There are two things we do know about Capital Works Funds. One, you can do all the fancy accounting and forward planning you want but you are not legally obliged to fund it. I know … I know!
This is what we were informed by our strata manager…
1. You MUST pay an independent company to produce the 10 year plan, owners corporations are not legally able to do this
2. Once we approve a plan we are obliged to carry out all works in the year they are reported or we could be fined
I thought this was pretty over the top. Where do SMs come up with this garbage?
Our SM sends 3 quotes to the Strata Committee, they choose one which is presented at the AGM.
Reason being the renewal date doesn’t necessarily line up with the AGM date so the OC in the previous AGM agree to allow the SC to choose.
I’ve owned 4 strata properties in my time and every one of them had a by-law allowing installation of security devices, have you checked your by-laws? Our current one is this:
“Changes to common property
(1) An owner or person authorised by an owner may install, without the consent of the owners corporation:
(a) any locking or other safety device for protection of the owner’s lot against intruders or to improve safety
within the owner’s lot, or
(b) any screen or other device to prevent entry of animals or insects on the lot, or
(c) any structure or device to prevent harm to children.
(2) Any such locking or safety device, screen, other device or structure must be installed in a competent and
proper manner and must have an appearance, after it has been installed, in keeping with the appearance of
the rest of the building.
(3) Clause (1) does not apply to the installation of any thing that is likely to affect the operation of fire safety
devices in the lot or to reduce the level of safety in the lots or common property.
(4) The owner of a lot must:
(a) maintain and keep in a state of good and serviceable repair any installation or structure referred to in
clause (1) that forms part of the common property and that services the lot, and
(b) repair any damage caused to any part of the common property by the installation or removal of any locking
or safety device, screen, other device or structure referred to in clause (1) that forms part of the common
property and that services the lot.”If you did get robbed because of their decision I’d be hitting them up for compensation, no one has the right to put your family at risk.
Apparently it’s the Landlord’s responsibility to change the battery in smoke alarms in-between every tenancy in NSW.
How does this work with the 10 year lithium battery alarms where the batteries can’t be changed? Are we expected to replace them every time a tenant leaves?
Could also be due to declining building standards. Gone are the days of the double brick apartment.
Is it possible to set up a sprinkler on a timer?
I found the way the questions were worded very confusing. I failed the test miserably but when I read the correct answers it was more often than not what I meant (or thought I was saying).
I think not electing office bearers is a tactic some (bad) SMs use as only a Secretary can obtain the strata role, and you need the strata role to hold an EGM in order to sack said SM!
Anyway, we just held an EC meeting, elected office bearers then the newly elected Secretary forwarded the minutes to the strata manager requesting the strata role. Many emails later we finally got our strata role, and no, we didn’t get email addresses.
I was under the impression notice of an EGM must be;
1) dated at least 7 days before the date of the meeting
2) sent to all owners at least 7 days prior to meeting
2) put on the notice board (if by-laws state that there must be a notice board) 7 days prior to meeting
and
3) owners must be financial as of the date on the notice of the meeting to be eligible to vote
Please correct me if I’m wrong, also, if point 3 is correct can someone please point me in the direction of the fair trading NSW site as to where I can find this information?
Many thanks,
confused1