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My experience with NCAT was not a pleasant experience. Our building has failed to undertake any maintenance despite hundreds of thousands in repair costs being incurred through concrete cancer remediation.
Painting to protect building external surfaces and keep the value of property up, blocked and overflowing sewer and storm water, water leaks from water pipes into lots, lifting and subsiding driveways to name a few issues.
This was dismissed by the member and we were forced to withdraw despite presenting a file of many pages including photos. The agreement with strata has not been honored and I guess we will be back for another go.
Next time I will do it with a lawyer to represent as they will not be so easily walked over.
Quite a disappointing experience and a waste of government resources.
Have to keep on the strata plan to keep building the picture of a strata plan that is just looking to avoid costa in the immediate term.Jimmy,
Our Strata plan owners’ corporation has been hijacked by perhaps not bullies but by passive aggressive equivalents.
For a strata plan that has historically just got on and “done it” is now being blocked by a number of committee members that are solely interested in protecting their individual financial positions to the detriment of property values of all.
Critical painting, lighting, concrete-spalling, subsidence, drainage and other items are constantly being pushed back for further quotes.
Meanwhile, non-financial owners are forcing their way onto the committee through friendly nomination by absentee owner and in conjunction with key agitator is working to block all necessary work items including lots where flooring cannot be replaced due to concrete spalling (cancer) given the unlevel nature of the floor which no company will touch.Sadly some owners cannot see past their own self interests and unfortunately it looks as if this will find us owners with an interest in improving and maintaining our property needing to ask the tribunal to issue a ruling to have the works progress.
None of us are sitting on a gold mine but where your home is falling apart, most would not sit by and let it happen but bite the bullet and chip in for the works to be done. After all, no one is going to get a good sale price on a dilapidated property.
JY
Our building late 60’s build similarly has had its share of issues regarding wiring.
Is it correct that all wiring internal to the lot (I.e from internal fuse board to powers points etc is the responsibility of the owner or is it possible that the OC could be responsible for cabling in exterior walls? Our neighbour is convinced that the OC is accountable for rectifying failed power circuit to some points in the kitchen. I would have thought that the OC was responsible for power from main distribution board into the lot to the fuse board and the owner for everything internally.
JY