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Billen Ben said:
I would not argue the OC has a “perfect right” to protect the common property but what Jimmy suggests is a part of what is wrong in strata.
If a person breaks a by-law then be as big a pain as possible to that person and see if you can't hit them where it may or may not hurt, in the hip pocket — that is what i am reading. That is sad.
Sad, maybe, but a fact of life. If somebody moving out is inconsiderate or careless enough to damage common property, what are your chances of getting the money back off them after they'd disappeared into the sunset? Or should we just accept that some people don't give a damn about their neighbours and pay the bills to repair the damage they cause?
If your building has an issue with the EC unfairly refusing to return bonds, then maybe you could deal with that using the methods you have suggested to everyone else for dealing with damage done by departed residents. Hmmm. Not so easy, is it?
I didn't, by the way, suggest that paying to have the strata manager oversee the removal was a good idea. In fact, I said the opposite. But having the manager check the common areas before and after the move then promptly refund the bond if there is no damage (or otherwise) seems like common sense to me. Let the removalists claim it off their insurance then, if damage has been done.