Morning all,
Jimmy wrote above:-
It makes a lot of sense for your OC to create a one size fits all by-law for renovations like yours. If they decline, tell them that you will make damned sure each of them pays full fare whenever they want to do work on their flats. It’s time we stopped this rort (at worst) or laziness (at best) of demanding individual by-laws for identical work.
We are in NSW. We have this issue at present – one new owner wants to renovate the bathroom (others have done so in the past and one owner has done so without permission) However.
We have a request from new owner to renovate their bathroom – our committee of 3 is fine with this. We just need a detailed plan / time-frame etc.
We have had our Strata Mgr say they need a by-law to do so – and we understand this however, when i spoke to XYZ Strata Lawyers that we would like to have a blanket by-law for bathroom renovations for the SP he said no – as all bathrooms could be different and yes that will be so but what makes this worse is we are all townhouses with all bathrooms on the lst or 2nd level therefore within the lot (oh and we are pre 1974 – being strata’d in 1971). the XYZ strata lawyer basically laughed at me for asking saying this just is not feasible to which i say why? it’s costing the new owner 700+ for the bylaw that will be the same for the next person who want’s to renovate and there will be others we know.
What do we need to say to the XYZ strata lawyers to have them act on this on behalf of the our Strata Plan.