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@Boronia said:
If you had a stand alone property which you rented out, and similar works were required to it with the same effect on your tenant(s), what would you do? Who would compensate you?
This forum is about strata. Nobody shares the benefit of work done on a stand-alone house so why should anyone share the cost? Everybody shares the benefit of work done on common property so why shouldn’t they share the pain.
Don’t forget, the owner is also paying for their share of repairs Why should they also lose thousands of dollars in rent just because their unit is in the wrong part of the building?
We really need to stop thinking that strata units are the same as houses. Shared responsibility and shared benefits are the key concepts that hold strata together. There is absolutely nothing comparable in free-standing houses.
It’s when you start trying to apply free-standing house ‘rules’ to units that we get into trouble.