Re: Home Building Act s.48

I am sorry to have to observe that my genuine questions have been met with condescension and now irrelevant suggestions of “conspiracy.”  I am perfectly capable of reading the act and the many explanations of the amendments which legal firms have put on the internet. I have also read the speeches in the debate  in the House of Assembly. 

What I wanted to know is just how much protection could have been gained by lodging a building claim by Jan 15 IF the building was already out of its warranty period, or close to that point. Many owners corporations would have served lists of defects on their developers since their strata was registered. In many of these cases OCs and developers are working their way through the list, co-operatively. The claims lodged by Jan 15 are in a different category – formal legal notices served on developers. In some cases to my knowledge this has ruptured good working relations between the parties which now have to communicate and negotiate everything through solicitors. 

I pointed out that I could not find any statements – official or otherwise – made when the amendments were enacted, which advised stratas to lodge claims by Jan 15. It did seem to have been a well-kept secret. Just how many strata managers did advise their clients to lodge claims? How many took the advice?

I am a lot owner; I resent the lecture in your final paragraph and the insinuation that I am some pawn of developers. I suppose it was easier to sneer than to understand and answer my points.