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Jimmy-T
Keymaster

    @Keep Calm said:
    I didn’t have a problem parking slightly out of my covered car space until balcony gutters fell onto my car and left some damage, not covered by the strata insurance.

    How can balcony guttering not be covered by strata insurance? Is that what the strata manager told you? Seems very unlikely to me – it would be common property and therefore covered by insurance.

    We have gone to mediation and the EC are not agreeing to relocate the pipes to the back wall so they are out of the way, and i could open my door to get out.

    Check the original plan. If the pipes and wall have been added since the strata scheme was set up – especially if the car space is your “lot” rather than common property – then you can demand that they be moved.

    The Owners Corp can’t just grab bits of common property or, especially, lot property, without due process.

    Am I wrong in saying that a building inspection isn’t supposed to see if you car fits into the car space?!

    It wouldn’t be a normal part of a pre-purchase inspection

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