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Hi, I bought into a block of 12 apartments about 18 months ago, knowing the the gardens weren’t all that tidy and for the most part are simply patches of dirt.
I want to do some work to ‘lift’ the amenity/appearance of the gardens but not sure what I am allowed to do considering it is common property. Do i need to get consensus from the OC? There is no active committee as there is less then 13 units, and no one attends the AGM (I missed this years too!)
I feel that the the OC Manager wants to do the least amount of work possible, and suggests that we put it too a mail ballot too see if anyone else wants to do anything but the status quo. I think this is a diversionary tactic on his part, to get out of actually organising any work… and/or coming in with a quote that is too high that nothing gets done as a result…
Can i perform work myself and pass and incurred charges (not labour costs, just materials/plants/soil etc) back to the OC…is there a sub-limit of me simply doing the work, and sending the receipts in?
We are moving decorative gardens stones from the front yard of one of our other investment properties and want to transplant them to the common property of this block…at no charge (except trailer hire) to the OC, but want to know if this kind of work would be allowed. As i mentioned, the gardens are mostly dustbowls, these stones would at least give the impression that someone is taking care of the grounds…
And, somewhat related…if I put down these stones…am I in anyway liable should someone trip/fall/injure themselves as a result of the stones being put in the garden…
I’m in Melboure btw…
Many Thanks for any advice
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