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Certainty of Title and certainty of lot boundaries are essential and without them you may have difficulty selling your property, or claiming trespass, or anything else that you might want to do.
By all means talk to the inherited owner but be prepared to take this matter further if you need to.
The building document that you mentioned is not particularly relevant. The important document is the Strata Plan which should show all of the Lots and Lot boundaries, and the Common Property. Strata levies for Lots 1 and 2 would be based on the strata plan document and the floor plans.
Your strata manager should have a copy of the Strata Plans. Ask them for this document. If they don’t then you can obtain copies of the strata plans from one of the approved information brokers listed on the website of the Registrar General Directions NSW (see link):
In order to determine whether an item is common property you must inspect a copy of the registered strata plan and a current search of the common property title. Copies of the plan and searches of the common property title can be purchased through LPI’s approved information brokers.
If you believe that you need legal advice after you have obtained the Strata Plan and that the legal quote that you have obtained is too expensive then you may need to shop around for another strata lawyer quote.
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Here is a NSW govt document entitled Strata Plan Fast Facts that you might find useful in understanding the plans:
https://rgdirections.lpi.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/143078/Strata_Plans_Fast_Facts.pdf
I would not be offering to help pay to reinstate the door in Lot 2. If it is their mistake then they should pay.