We have an all-too familiar tale from Victoria (yay!) this week where an owner has decided to take out a load-bearing wall in his flat, in a small, older apartment block.
He employed an engineer to check that it could be done safely and his builder assured him that it didn’t require strata approval.
So he went ahead and did the work but now the committee want him to pay for another engineer to check that it’s OK.
Apart from the fact that asking your builder what can or can’t be done under strata law is the rookiest of all rookie reno errors, are his neighbours entitled to demand that he pays for another building engineer to test the work? That’s HERE.
Elsewhere in the Forum
What can you do when tenants persistently ignore by-laws and landlords do nothing about it? That’s HERE.
UPDATES: Why it might be a good idea to formalise your own “land grab”. That’s HERE.
How do we remove a bad committee member? That’s HERE.
Why does every potential purchaser have to pay for a strata report? That’s HERE.
What’s a reasonable delay on owners corp repairing common property? That’s HERE.
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