An oldie but a goodie turned up this week, and it’s all about that perennial favourite … “parking”.
A young adult who has been moving between parents has decided to stick with the one who lives in an apartment block.
That parent has half their two-car garage used as storage so the progeny parks in visitor parking for days at a time.
Hang on, says the committee, the kid’s now a permanent resident so they can’t use visitor parking as a fulltime car park.
‘Not so,” says the parent. “Their official address, on their licence, is miles away, so they are a visitor.”
Just to be clear, this is a land grab by any other name. The kid is a resident but they’re not on the strata roll. They’re not a tenant or sub-tenant, so they don’t have to be registered as they have no lease.
But they are using common property for their long-term personal benefit when they are no one’s definition of a of a bona fide “visitor”.
So what can you do if there’s no strata law definition of who is a visitor and who isn’t?
We have an answer that works for any block where land-grabbers and parking thieves try to wriggle round the rules.
And it also works for romantic partners and Airbnb guests who stay all weekend and misuse visitor parking too. That’s HERE.
Elsewhere in the Forum
- It’s different in Vic, Part 1: Did you know that there is no obligation in Vic for strata committees to allow owners to sit in on committee meetings? That’s HERE.
- Could you really have costs of $40,000 awarded against you at NCAT? A rude reader calls BS in the latest post in the “serial pest” saga. That’s HERE.
- What do you do if an owner wants to bring a pet into a building when its “no-pets” by-law hasn’t been replaced? That’s HERE.
- It’s different in Vic, Part 2: Did you know that tiles and waterproofing on balconies and in bathrooms are usually NOT common property in Victoria? That’s HERE.
- A passionate plea for a little understanding and compassion from someone who feeds stray cats. That’s HERE.
- I don’t think there’s a legal requirement for a window lock compliance certificate so why are my strata managers trying to charge me for supplying one? That’s HERE.
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