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Jimmy’s advice reminds me of a unit owner who in our set of townhouses always put her bins where she could not see them on the outside of a courtyard wall which happened to be next to a well used footpath on common property rather than inside the wall which was her property and not in everyone else’s face.
The EC wrote a general newsletter item asking people to please store their bins within their unit area. Then the EC wrote to the unit owner and asked her directly. Then the EC asked the managing agent to write. All this was ignored. An irritated neighbour took to occasionally putting her bins back in her unit area but they were returned to outside the wall.
A few years elapsed. It was occasionally convenient to have a bin on common property to dump stuff in!
Then the OC was reviewing its rules (bylaws/articles, depends where you live). The EC proposed a rule about personal items, bins, rubbish, etc left on common property. In extensive consultation with owners we explained that this proposed rule would apply, for example, to a person who left their bins where they did not have to look at them but everyone else did. We didn’t hear a peep. The bins remained on common property. Our explanation included saying how it would give the EC the necessary teeth to insist.
Then, just after the AGM at which the new rule was passed, the bins disappeared and have not been seen again, presumably now stored within the unit area.
Sometimes the rules work!