Re: Water damage made unit untenantable.
Hi kingst, You need to find out who is at fault first (Builder or OC) prior to requesting “Should the body corporate reimburse me for lost rent?” Assuming it is…
Re: Water damage made unit untenantable.
Hi Whale, Im not sure I agree with you 100% as ‘damage’ has been caused and the property deemed unihabitable (hopefully by an expert) with the recent McDonough v The Owners…
Re: Water damage made unit untenantable.
kingst – whilst your Owners Corporation (O/C), that includes you by the way, is responsible for properly maintaining its Common Property (roof) so that it doesn’t leak, unless the O/C…
Re: Damage responsibility
If the damaged unit is insured, then the owners should claim against their own insurance and ask the upstairs owner to pay the difference. If the downstairs unit is not…
Re: Damage responsibility
The tort of negligence is the failure to take reasonable care, i.e a harm caused by carelessness. A malfunctioning dishwasher isn’t negligence. The owner of the damaged lot should claim…
Re: Damage responsibility
@powers that be said: I would have thought that it was obvious that the person responsible for the damage pays to have it fixed. It’s not always so. Generally negligence…
Re: Damage responsibility
PTB – I’m always loath to get involved in insurance matters, but IF the Owners of the damaged Unit have insurance, then why wouldn’t they make a claim on that,…
Damage responsibility
Hi there again, I could again use some advice. The situation is that a unit owner, rented her unit, the new tenant put dishwasher on and went out. Dishwasher malfunctioned,…
Re: Vic ruling opens door to short-term lets
Hi fcd You’re absolutely right but it’s not a ‘chink’, it’s a gap as wide and as obvious as the Sydney Harbour Heads. You must understand that our Residential Strata…
Re: Vic ruling opens door to short-term lets
If there’s another alternative, I’d really like to know what it is! Maybe the chink is via insurance? The risk to OC’s and all owners is that building insurance is…
Re: Vic ruling opens door to short-term lets
Given that many retires could be looking at downsizing by selling the family home to move to a CBD apartment I do not think they would be very impressed buying…
Re: Painting Party
Thanks very much for this. I will try to find out how much we are covered for with volunteers workers insurance. A working bee was planned for this weekend…