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Our strata has no registered by-laws.
One owner bought a dog. Kept it on a lead most of the time however left it off the lead on common property enough times to annoy me & make me concerned for the welfare of my tenant (who lives next door to me) & her young child.
Spoke with the managing agent whom told me the OC could not really deny permission to keep the dog due to the Act stating he OC could not unreasonably refuse permission.
I argued that if the dog owner was made to go through the formal process, of applying for permission at least the OC could impose conditions regarding always being on a lead on common property, dog poo removed etc.
Managing Agent did not assist, other owner whom resided overseas, did not care so the situation was left as is.
Now dog owner has moved out to rent a house & their tenant has moved in with … a cat! Of course, no permission sought. Overseas owner has sold & a nice new owner is in place. So now, the 3 of the 4 EC/OC members are opposed to animals at the property.
We tried the soft approach ie informing the tenants that we don’t approve of cats & explained why being that we worry for the many & varied species of wildlife we have etc. They assured us the cat is old & does not go outside.
Guess what? Surprise, surprise, the cat is often outside during the day.
We now have a new Managing Agent, do Forum Members recommend that the OC insist upon permission from the tenant/owner be sought & then refuse the request?
We like these tenants & don’t want to upset them but they lied about the cat being outside (& about a few other things).
Talking to them about it is not an option as we have been told by our Manging Agent whom was told by the Real Estate Agent whom was told by the owner that they do not want the owner/occupiers bossing their tenants around – this was after these tenants repeatedly came to the owner/occupiers asking if they could store this & that on common property & were given some leeway but when they abused that, were told ‘no’.
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