#27348
Perplexed
Flatchatter

    We have exactly the opposite situation in our building. There are 71 residential units, and a number of restaurants and businesses, including 2 night clubs. Out OC, and all general meetings, are completely controlled and dominated by the commercial owners and operators. Therefore we not only don’t recycle – we don’t even have the normal Sydney Council garbage collection services.

    Although all residential properties pay the $250/quarter +/-, for garbage collection included in Council rates, we also pay around $100,000/yr for commercial garbage collection, in our strata fees. Apparently our strata management company requested Council cease residential garbage pick up services when one of the nightclub/ restaurant owners, who was chairman at the time, purloined common property areas for restaurant usage. Separated commercial and residential garbage areas were no longer available.

    Since moving into the building, some of the current residential owners have requested the building resumes residential collection services, with Council, and to cease being charged for commercial waste removal, but the OC have simply deferred the matter and, at this moment, have no intention of rectifying the situation. It is a real problem.

    And don’t get me started on the rest of the inequities and ‘theft of common property’ in the building! It is a complete and utter nightmare …

    We love our beautiful, sunny little inner city flats and want to stay here. But it seems residents never win a battle, against commercial interests. And there are only so many hours in a day you can spend bashing yr head against a wall before there aren’t any brain cells left to think with. It has been a never ending, extremely debilitating struggle.

    Help us, flat chatters! We are at a loss.