Re: Common Property Concrete Cancer in a LOT – Who pays for Lot Owner costs?

With no disrespect to any Strata Lawyer, when I asked the member why he can’t make a ruling on this he told me that one doesn’t exist and from what I gather they are avoiding making one.

Getting a strata lawyer involved would mean that I would be paying for NCAT to formulate a ruling, which I believe through this process they don’t want.

Does this logic make sense to you Jimmy?

Hence, why a Supreme Court judge or someone who knows one is that this issue will only become worse as we as a population get older and buildings get older. That is, people my generation are using their home equity (eg through a reverse mortgage) to live a life of some quality and if Owners Corporations play silly buggers and don’t want to pay for these costs then Strata Committees and Strata Managers should at least be telling their OC’s that we won’t pay in these circumstances upfront. This way we are at least informed and we’ll have to not live such a life and put the reverse mortgage money away in the Australian Anzac spirit of helping our mates.

Come on Jimmy, ok you may not know of a Supreme Court judge but with such a platform surely you can do more – why don’t you run a story on this in the AFR at least putting pressure on NCAT to act. May I suggest you approach the relevant Ministers and Premier and maybe flat-chat could launch on behalf of OC’s bullied by Strata Committees a #wetoo social media campaign.