#18247
Jimmy-T
Keymaster

    If you are doing anything to change common property – such as pipes in the wall and bathroom tiles – you need a special resolution by-law which should include clauses that make you responsible for the repair and maintenance of any parts of the common property that you alter or replace.
    Some buildings have a blanket by-law in place that makes any owner responsible for changes made to common property even if they don’t tell the Owners Corp about them – this gets round the problem of people making changes, not telling the Owners Corp and then selling their unit at which point the owners Corp (not the new owner) inherits responsibility for the alterations.

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