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We are keen to swap car spaces with a neighbour, so that our cars are side-by-side. This will also increase our ability to store items against the carpark wall. Our neighbour is agreeable to the swap.The car spaces are allotted to our respective strata unit lots in the strata plan. We understand that a registered surveyor has to draw up new strata plans to reflect the swap of car spaces, and that documents and approvals need to be sought and lodged.Just wondering what the approximate cost and complexity of this process is. For example, conveyancing and survey costs, etc.
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If you and your neighbour are both going to be in your units for the foreseeable future, why not just have an informal agreement that they let you use their space and vice-versa? That costs nothing and involves no-one else.
What Sir Humphrey says, although you may want to lock it in with a mutually beneficial leasing arrangement that, if possible, endures beyond the current ownership of the lots.
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Hey there from Victoria.
Could a $1 per annum (say) licence agreement work here? (i.e. you each pay one another $1 each year). Only cost is drawing it up with the lawyer (shared cost – couple of hundred dollars maybe?) and it might have some notional expiry of xx years and early termination by agreement? Not sure if it can be designed to endure past a change in property owner??
I’m not a lawyer, but I did have a licence agreement when I moved into my place before settlement. That was a pretty simple document and might work here. It wouldn’t involve the strata manager at all, you’d essentially be tenants I would think? I’d talk to a lawyer, maybe one that does property transfers and is familiar with this territory?
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