In my nice little 4-flat block in Bondi Beach, a studio apartment (for one or a couple) has been converted into a two-bedroom flat, without reference to the Council or the Owners Corporation.
The relatively new landlord admits to housing FIVE people there now, but it’s often more like five or six or more, and the same landlord has the nerve to complain about the sewerage system being overloaded. The tenants clothing and furniture spills out of the flat and onto common property. They make excess noise, and they won’t recycle.
The landlord involved owns a chain of fast-food outlets, and uses the flat to accommodate local staff. The multiple benefits to the owner of this flat have come at the expense of the amenity of other owners.
The block’s well remunerated managing agent won’t intervene, and has just resigned management because I ask them to.
At next AGM, I will use my voting numbers to get the Owners Corporation to pass a by-law to control numbers, as per Sydney City Council’s development controls.
Where will these tenants go? You will perhaps understand why my exasperated answer is simply: AWAY FROM HERE.