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According to the advice I have been getting form various legal sources, this definitely falls under the category of “things you shouldn’t legally do but will probably get away with”.
That said, all it would take would be one owner (doubtless given every assistance by the “Sharing Without Caring” money machine) to pursue the owners corp for lost earnings and the whole thing would fall over.
But I am tired of hearing the word “disruptive” as if that is always a good thing. Come and disrupt the community that I have helped build for the past few years just so you can make some extra cash at my expense? Let me show you what disruptive really looks like.
Seriously, if the government gets this wrong – and there is every indication that they will – there will be guerrilla warfare in some buildings where, regardless of what the law says or intends, short-stay lets will be driven out.
If the law won’t support their efforts to build communities, then the people who run strata committees might decide to take the law into their own hands. It’s amazing how disruptive a squirt of superglue and a matchstick applied to a door lock in the dead of night can be, especially when a new batch of tourists are about to arrive to whoop it up for the weekend..
Of course, that is criminal damage and I couldn’t ever recommend that to anyone, anywhere, under any circumstances.
But I’m told it’s bloody effective.