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Greetings again from Queensland. Had a similar but different situation at our Sunshine Coast complex on the banks of the Maroochy River. We have a large ‘common property’ boatshed on the premises, intended to securely house the 15+ kayaks belonging to owners/occupiers. (We’d also built racks on the outside wall – under CCTV – to accommodate the kayaks brought by the holiday makers at peak times.) None of the vessels in the boatshed were marked to identify the owners and their respective lots. More owners bought kayaks, we ran out of ‘rack’ space in the shed, and about 4+ kayaks ended up being stored on the floor – and had to be shifted every time someone wanted to access a kayak. When we did a stock take of who owned what, we discovered that our resident holiday-letting manager had given a number of his regulars permission to permanently store their kayaks in the boat shed – all bubble wrapped and up on the storage racks – between their annual holidays. The manager has been there since 2006, has a 25-year contract which gets topped-up every year, and has developed a sense of entitlement to do what he pleases. One of the many downsides of that QLD cancer called Long-Term Management Rights.
Ross