Mr Strata, I don’t think that’s the point here. This issue is that unauthorised changes were made to common property by a previous owner and Masked2014 was ordered by his strata manager to make good the damage at his own expense.
We are saying that he doesn’t have to as they (the OC) have inherited the common property damage and if they insist on “fixing” it, they have to pay.
Masked 2014 was looking for a definitive ruling that he could show to his strata manager to prove that we are right and the SM is wrong. I don’t know of one but that doesn’t mean it’s not accepted fact. And Whale’s post 5 below points to sections of the Act that would construct such a ruling.
So, if I were Masked 2014, I would not be hiring anyone to do anything. The OC are the ones who want things done and they have been told that they are responsible but chose not to believe this. So let them make the running until they trip over the law