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    want2behappyathome
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      Hi guys,

      Starting this thread to vent a bit and may be to get some insight. I’m not after suggestions that I should not be parking in the visitor spot as I’m no longer doing that. However hoping for some empathy and thoughts on what can be done in this situation to deal with a bully.

      We live in a complex of 5 villas. We are number 3. Number one has tenants. The owner is a lady who doesn’t live to far away with her husband. They have had issues in the past with us using the visitor car park occasionally. But pretty much everyone uses it especially tenant for number 2 and number 5 who are the recent new owners. Number 2, 4, 5 don’t care. In fact number 5 park in the common area in front of their villa as it doesn’t get in anyone’s way and we don’t care. 

      Would be 4 years for us here late Feb 2014. Initially we didn’t know how strata worked but eventually got to know the other two owners (4 and 5). Naively believed in fraudulent letters received without any date or signature and strata letter head. Turns out tenant for number 2 and ex-owner for number 5 received those too. And owner for number 4 and 5 told us that this guy has had major issues with harassing them and other previous owners. We all confirmed with strata that these were not sent by strata when we realised something wasn’t right. He would put notes on our car as well. By the way this man used to do the complex cleanFrown and as a mutual agreement between villas 3, 4, 5 and dissatisfaction with the quality of works two years we changed the gardening guys. Took us a while to get the right one now though.

      Last December on our birthday, we were home and he banged on our door and asked where is my sis (who owns the villa) and said move the car (this is after he was removed from the complex cleaning late 2011). So in response I kept asking him “WHY is he banging on the door like that?”, to which he took great offence and said “Excuse me?” – Like we can’t ask him why he is harassing us?

      Took us a while but we got around to it, mid this year we told strata that we had already spoken to the police about this man’s behaviour and that our peace and quiet had been impacted; And that his behaviour to approach us aggressively had been very distressing for us. As well as the letters that were never sent by strata are fraudulent (as confirmed by strata). Strata manager thought that it wasn’t really his job to communicate this, but wrote a letter telling him to not send these letters as they were fraudulent. Clearly he was going to call asking for proof and when he did call, the strata manager told him that we had already been talking to the police and will pursue courts if he did not back off.

      Ever since he hasn’t approached us, however hired a property manager to come and take a photo of our car. We have been fed up as everyone else also parks and he seems to be pinning it on us. We feel that he is threatened of empowered young women. So after that we wanted peace so we avoided parking there while others continued.

      We also noted that there is more than usual leaves and rubbish in front of our villa as we just cleaned last week when the gardening guy didn’t show up and suspect that he happened to clean in front of his villa and blow a lot of it infront of ours. We have removed this again last night btw.

      The other day we had a strata meeting and his wife said in future they will go to tribunal directly as their tenants get inconvenienced by anyone parking in that spot. I have barely ever seen their tenants in 4 years and I don’t think they care from what I have heard from tenant at number 2. So in response we told them that we had already spoken the the police. He said they are all allegations and he banged on our door in 2006 (when we didn’t even live here). He was literally yelling at us at the strata meeting and although we are strong we still took our brother with us. He said we had no proof that he banged on our door. What other proof do we need really than being present? The wife was quite interested to know about the cleaning….and we said well infront of our villa needed a clean and we needed the gardener to come more frequently to which he said that we could clean ourselves. Not that we need to give any explanations, we pay for strata for a reason AND we work 12-13 hour days (corporate work + portfolio building) and are busy people.

      During this conversation he tried to get the new owner off villa 5 on his side…and villa 4 never says anything and is very timid but later said to us that he knew how this man was. He had done the same to the ex-owners at number 5 (even peaked in their windows/banged the door) and had backed off after he was threatened with police action. While we’ve heard that the ex-ex-owners of number 5 had sold out because he harassed them for having cut a tree in front of their villa…

      I would want to deal with this legally. If we don’t even occasionally use that spot, then similarly we’d like villa 5 new owners to not be parking in front of their villa as that is not a parking spot (and this man had made previous owners life hell for that same reason). I want to know how common it is for owners to visit their tenanted strata properties that they are (no longer) self managing? Although it’s good to have someone who comes and waters the plants in front of their villa, there is an element of sticky beaking and making our life difficult. We just want to live in peace but we are inclined to sort him out in a legal manner. He is a misogynist for sure and sometimes I feel there is a race issue too…

      Insights welcomed, no battering please.

      Thanks for reading.

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