Airbnb is the gift that keeps giving when it comes to media coverage of strata, especially with every state having their own rules that are always changing.
Victoria’s “come on down” attitude, that has seen perfectly good apartment blocks tuned into party and backpacker hell holes, has now become a revenue raising exercise to pay for affordable homes for the people driven out by the short-term holiday hosts.
IN NSW, strata schemes can ban short-term holiday lets (STHLs) except in apartments that are the principal place of residence of the host.
But what is the principal place of residence? If you sleep four nights a week there, but rent it out every weekend, or stay for 27 weeks a year but list it for the other 25 while you go on a world cruise, is it not your principal place of residence?
In Queensland apartment blocks that are designated to be residential-only still have to allow short-term lets because councils see Airbnb and its ilk as still being residential.
Which brings us to a question in the forum: if the local council says a unit block can have short-term lets but owners pass a by-law saying it can’t, who wins? That’s HERE.
Elsewhere in The Forum
- Neighbours don’t want to pay insurance because it covers my solar panels. That’s HERE.
- Who owns the front door keys to a strata flat – and can the building manager overcharge for replacing them? That’s HERE.
- Water torture as committee allows air con drip through overflow pipe. That’s HERE.
- Is the owners corp obliged to fix a wall that looks like it could fall? That’s HERE.
- We know they could, but has NCAT ever forced a strata committee member to quit? That’s HERE.
- Owner has annexed small space chunk of common property. That’s HERE.
- Are guns OK on rural common land? That’s HERE.
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Tagged: airbnb, by laws, committee, dripping water, forum, guns, Insurance, land grab, Strata, wall
Conflict with council OK for holiday lets, insurance for solar panels, air-con water torture, mini land grab, who owns front door keys?
[See the full post at: Forum: Council versus owners corp over Airbnb]
The opinions offered in these Forum posts and replies are not intended to be taken as legal advice. Readers with serious issues should consult experienced strata lawyers.
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