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The response by your executive committee is exactly the same as ours! One must reflect on whether it is the same EC?
A nylon netting over the stones [such as that used for swimming poolcovers] would not be prohibitively expensive. The strata budget on our building is in excess of half a mill per year.
Let us be realistic about this. It is a very sad commentary on society . The large majority of owners/tenants,and the EC , are simply indifferent to the problems and safety of a few persons at a lower level of the building.
What is really sickening is that the insurance company, which is well aware of the issue and public safety aspects involved but is happy to pay out a few thousand dollars per year on claims for damage to windows, etc, so as to continue to draw in a premium of some ten times their annual payout.
Their greed and arrogance is only exceeded by their ignorance.If a person was injured ,either on one of he balconies or on the street below ,and they sued the Body Corporate ,the insurance company would not pay out because they would argue that it was recognisable problem that the EC deliberately ignored .
The litigant would seek ‘discovery’ of the Body Corporate minutes and extensive correspondence and the Court would award damages against the entire building which would amount to upwards of $5000 per apartment.
[See T-World's original post HERE – JT]