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jpeake600- The owners corporation has a strict duty to repair and maintain common property.
Do you have a functioning Committee? Does your small scheme hold Meetings?
Have you obtained approval in the correct manner from the other owners (or at least one other owner if you have 3 owners) for the undertaking of the repair and maintenance?
Do you have the correct authority from the Owner’s Corporation to undertake these actions?
Does your scheme have sufficient funds in the Sinking Fund to carry out this repair and maintenance?
If approval has been obtained correctly then can you please answer the following:
Is the apartment in question occupied at the moment or is it vacant?
If it is occupied then the next questions are: Is it owner occupied? or is it tenanted? If it is tenanted do you have a record of the Agent’s contact details?
If it is occupied then you can always contact the occupant via knocking on the door, emailing the Agent etc. Have you tried this?
If is is not occupied then write a letter to the owner at their last known address to provide Notice of the maintenance, including the dates that the access is required to clean the gutters and undertake the pebblecrete repairs. Ask the owner to respond to you by a given date if and when they receive the Notice.
If no response is received by the given date then you will have done all that you can do under the circumstances, and you should be able to undertake the maintenance and repairs.
These steps may take a while …. but it is worth doing everything correctly or you can find yourself in a whole heap of trouble.