I don’t want to go on about this, BUT….
It’s difficult to educate resident owners about the challenges of strata living, but try doing that when 80% of the residents in your Plan are tenants, whose Property Managers don’t provide them with a copy of Fair Trading’s “Strata Living” Publication as they’re required to, don’t provide them with a copy of the Plan’s By-Laws as they’re required to (even though I’ve placed a downloadable copy of our Plan’s By-Laws & Special By-Laws its website), and don’t provide the O/C with S119 Notifications unless I insist, and insist again!
I’m still insisting on S119 Notifications from the seven (7) Real Estate Agencies who manage rental properties in our Plan, because as a step towards Struggs’ “pds” initiative, I provide every new tenant by name (off the S119) with a “welcome” letter to explain the 10 top challenges of living in our Plan, together with some complementary information about garbage collection, security access etc.
That seems to work, but even on those few occasions when it doesn’t it’s good ammunition for the Consumer Trader & Tenancy Tribunal’s (CTTT) convoluted processes when we have to seek Orders to Comply; which leads to one of my submissions to the Strata Reform Process to the effect that Owners Corporations should be recognised in the Tenancy Division of the CTTT so that they can, when all else fails, seek Eviction Orders against tenants.