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Thank you so much everyone for the responses.
Firstly, as soon as the neighbour moved in she let me know that she was a smoker and invited me to tell her whenever the smoke was bothering me. I did a few cheery “hi, I can smell your smoke” in which case she apologised profusely and hurried to smoke at the other end of her balcony.
However, she smokes out there about 10-20 times a day, and regardless of where she smokes it still floats into my unit.
Secondly, my strata manager is a useless piece of excrement and we are stuck with him for the next 18 months.
Thirdly I am on the EC! There is one other EC member who has also suffered from smoke drift from other residents but he is on the fence about making an issue of it.
The strata manager has quoted us $1,100 to execute and adopt a new bylaw (does that sound about right?).
I find it hilariously ironic that the smokers smoke on their balcony because they don’t want to smell it inside their own house, but in doing so are perfectly comfortable with everyone else’s houses smelling like it. Thanks for nothing …