@bpositive said:
It seems strange that the Owners Corp is required to maintain individual aircons for a lifetime for units which are for the owners benefit only.
The basic principle is that, as the Owners Corp has responsibility for Common Pronperty and someone makes a change to common property without their permission, then it is up to the OC to rectify that.
If the OC doesn’t know that the changes have been made, that is just the same as ignorance of the law – it’s no excuse. That’s why the illegally installed aircon becomes the repsonsibility of the OC when the unit is sold.
They could, theoretically, inspect the unit when it is up for sale and immediately make an application to have the air-con removed. If OCs are too lazy or uninformed to do that, it’s hardly the fault of the new or subsequent owners.
That’s why it becomes the responsibility of the OC and that’s why nobody should ever allow common property to be changed on a nod and wink basis.
But, as i said below, there is a solution to this – tell the owner if the air-con is the OC’s repsonsibility, that’s fine. The OC will rip it out an reinstate the common property to its previous state. The OC may have responsibility for the air-con but it doesn’t have responsibility for the temperature in the owners’ homes.
It really is as easy as that.