#20596
Jimmy-T
Keymaster


    @Austman
    said:

    I think you’re lucky not to be fined.  I think you should also apologise to the OC.

     

    And I think everyone needs to get off their high horses.  The person at fault here is Liam’s idiot (ex) friend who not only doesn’t bother to read his building’s by-laws but doesn’t read notices from the building management.  He ain’t exactly Robinson Crusoe in that regard.

    The real issue here is how Owners Corps deal with “abandoned” goods.  There is no clear regulation on that (unlike in the residential tenancy Act).

    I recall in my first rental, finding that the resident owners had decided that they and they alone were entitled to use the storage space and we caught them in the act of loading a locked trunk full of our personal stuff – with labels all over it saying who it belonged to – on to a skip for disposal.  “You’re a tenant and we didn’t know whose it was,” the brass-necked martinet from the EC said when challenged.

    So let’s get back to the initial question.  In the absence of any clear evidence of where the bike has gone, I believe Liam or his mate could claim on theri home and contents insurance becasue the bike has been stolen since a) it’s not there any more and b) no one knows where it is.

    Let’s talk about that.  Any further derogatory comments will be spiked because I will not allow this forum to turn into a squabble-fest.

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