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Where in the ACT or court/tribunal findings is action against the current owner for alterations to common property ruled out? What if someone claimed that while they were away an intruder altered common property adjacent to or within their lot? The implication in all of this is also that unless a clear record is kept of the condition and location of common property then someone could undertake various works and claim that it was done by some previous owner – or at a stretch even that they were the only ones who had not altered common property and that all units once had say external blinds or air con units – there are probably cases where that is true e.g. old extraction fans.
I also understood that there was a requirement in current contracts to purchase strata units for the seller to state whether any alterations were properly approved – is this so?