#18725
Whale
Flatchatter
Chat-starter

    You know when you’re fairly sure about something, but you need some confirmation? Well I did better than that, so thanks everyone!

    Whilst I don’t want to deny this owner an opportunity to discuss her issues, I just want to do that rationally, and I believe that right now the best way to do that is, if possible, by denying her an audience; legally.

    Slightly off topic, but the reason I need to take this approach is because many of the repairs that this new owner wants the Owners Corporation to address within her five (5) newly acquired rental properties have arisen from long-ignored faults and unauthorised works on Common Property by numerous past tenants.

    On the basis of what I’ve inspected so far (and there’s more to come), repairs relate to three (3) showers that have been leaking for so long that water has damaged the kick-boards of kitchen cupboards in one (1) unit and lifted paint on adjoining (common) walls in two (2) units, “peep-holes” drilled through entry doors (3) from the inside that have splintered the outside surfaces, bent window frames in another unit that been caused by long-term impacts with lengths of dowel placed in the sliding tracks to overcome broken latches, and badly damaged render on internal (common) walls of two (2) units after the removal of flat-screen TVs and the metal clips used to fasten cabling / power leads to those walls.

    It will be an interesting discussion, because whilst the majority of the damage is to Common Property, it has been caused by the malicious acts (or naïve intent) of various tenants, and the extent and cost of the works now necessary to make repairs is much more extensive than would have been the case if Property Managers had properly inspected the properties on a regular basis, and promptly reported those very obvious faults.