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Unfortunately this does happen in apartment blocks. When I purchased my first apartment in Sydney some years ago, an upstairs neighbor constantly harassed me but not on common property. He had suffered a stroke and was wheelchair bound.
It had apparently affected his masculinity and when his wife told him a young female had moved in downstairs I was subjected to all sorts of filthy behavior with them inviting me upstairs for a meal (so they could get to know their new neighbor) where he would masturbate in front of me, invite me to watch porn movies with him, ask personal questions about my private life and ask me to come to a nudist colony with them etc.
The obvious reaction to this would be not to go to their apartment again. However, the AGM, and any directors meetings were held there because of his physical impediments to leaving the unit. I was more surprised at the wife’s behavior of being a complicit accomplice to his dirty intentions.
I recall telephoning the wife from work one day to ask if she would go downstairs and check from the outside if I had shut my bedroom window as I thought I may have inadvertently left it open and it was bothering me that I could be burgled ( I was on the ground floor). I could hear her husband calling out in the background “get her work number off her! get her work number off her”.
Another older female resident had told me he opened the door to her in the nude when she knocked for some reason.
I was very young and naive at dealing with such a situation. In hindsight I would have written a letter to them asking them to stop and put it in their letterbox. My father was on the verge of speaking with them about it as it was obviously causing me a great deal of distress.
If it takes a legal letter from a lawyer or you proceed with lodging an AVO, that may be a sufficient deterrent to having the bad behavior cease without a formal court order. It can be really unpleasant to have to live with neighbors who cause unnecessary distress this way.
Spend a few hundred dollars and pay a solicitor to write a legal letter to scare this dude from re-offending. If that doesn’t work then get the committee/ strata manager behind you. From what I have read of your post he may be even unaware that he is causing any trouble. Some people just have warped personalities. Go and see a solicitor.
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