Here’s a blast from the past: A Flatchatter is thinking of buying into a strata villa and has discovered it has a “no pets” by-law.
“Weren’t they outlawed after the famous Cooper case?” they ask.
“Perhaps,” says one Forum regular but then they have come across a scheme that, rather than banning all pets, has a by-law saying ‘no cats or dogs.”
That is not a blanket ban on all pets so is it a neat trick to get round recent law changes. Or would it fall over at the first challenge at the Tribunal?
Flat Chat Rumpoles, wig up and adjust your briefs HERE.
Fire order shortfall
On a more serious note, there’s a sad but far from unusual tale in this week’s Forum. An ageing building has been hit with a fire safety order meaning its six owners will have to fork out $100k between them.
Everyone is having to chip in but one elderly resident has never been all that crash hot at paying their levies and is $15k in arrears.
Also, this owner has “issues” that have resulted in being in and out of care and having had a number of AVOs taken against them.
So what can our Flatchatter do? Push the case to its logical, legal and financial limits and pursue an aggressive debt collection that could ultimately result in the levies debtor losing their home.
Or is there a less severe but still financially viable alternative out there that means the aged owner can get the help they need and their neighbours don’t have to pay an extra 20 per cent each to cover the shortfall? That’s HERE.
Elsewhere in the Forum
- Can an owner get pre-approval for major renovations without detailed designs? That’s HERE.
- Can committee members go ahead with major works without owners corp approval? That’s HERE.
- Who’s responsible for proving whether a floor is or isn’t noisy? That’s HERE.
- Define Class A and Class B in the ACT. That’s HERE.
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