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According to the builder who is attending my apartment has now been ruled out as source of the second leak so they are working from roof down. Won’t be surprised if they accidently fix a few other owners long standing problems along the way. There are lots of building defects so I am finding out from other owners who have been fighting strata & original builders since discovered. I did not authorise any of this major work, strata did so I am hoping they don’t send me the bill. I know I can’t be charged, I didn’t know until a couple of days after they started. They have the nerve to do things like that though & argue it was done to fix the leak in my apartmenf. Will see what happens.
Thank you,
both insurance companies, body corp & my contents are now agreeing to fix my apartment once we find the source of the other leak but have flat out refused to cover source of damage & so has strata based on the fact I am ground floor apartment with a balcony & tiny courtyard therefore building is on my prperty & fbuilding “maintenance & cracks” are my responsibility. I haven’t yet been invoiced, even the guys who did the work sent out by strata do not agree I should be billed.
still waiting to find where the other leak is coming from as that definately has a common wall & 3 balconies above me involved. Complex.
I had to get the building wall outside the bedroom fixed & sealed as well as under the windows as I was more water was coming in & both my contents insurer & the body corp insurer were threatening me. I was sent an email demanding I send them an invoice proving I had engaged a builder to start fixing the problem & if not they would not fix my apartment. Contents insurer wasn’t as aggressive but I had no choice. The source of the leak in the livingroom still hasn’t been found but strata are being absolute bullies and want nothing to do with it. Manager just tells me to go after original builder.
This only just happened & the damage is around edges of the rooms, even the ppl who have done the inspections said there was no way I could know this was happening unless you know what mould smells like & even then it may not have smelled until I disturbed it when I lifted the carpet.
completely stressed & angry
My conveyencers did all of that work so surely they would have alerted me and I have checked all of the paperwork & I can’t see anything though I will contact them to see what I can do. This Strata is knowing selling apartments with building faults and then turning around and saying to the owners oh well thats your property thats your building maintenance. My apartment is ground floor with a balcony and “court yard” you couldn’t swing a cat in!! So the are arguing my property my problem”
The reason I ask the legal questio in I have had 2 building inspectors strangly ring strata manager in front of me and during the conversation regarding my property and the apartment complex itself which is 7yrs old they both said “if you knew about this and didn’t disclose it at sale or do anything about it she can sue you”. I didn’t think anything of it at the time I was more upset at what was going on and my contents and wet carpet & mould damaged floor boards & everything else. Its only now & I guess after what alot of ppl are saying and how nasty the strata manager has been I am asking the question. I know for a fact he is pushing the builders plumbers to make this unknown leak source look like its my fault and coming from my property but the builder/ plumber just wants to do his job properly, fairly and get it right so it can be fixed so it doesn’t happen again.
I have a strata that is coming after me & I have done nothing. So they fired me up to look into this & where I stand.
There have been multiple apartments with multiple water ingress problems fixed under builders certificates & other ways.
When all of this originaly happened & strata manager was sort of being nice I stupidly mentioned I knew other apartments had been fixed. I was angry and I said “you knew about this?” To which he replied “we treat every case individually”
they damn well know.
Victorian Laws- Help Needed??
I bought a 2 bedroom apartment in March. On 22 Oct I discovered wet carpets in my bedroom, called body corp and they said they would investigate “source” if its my fault I pay their fault they pay. My insurance came out ripped up carpets much to my horror the was mould imbedded in the carpet and cement!! So mould remiation was done and I have been living in a hotel since. My strata comp was trying to blame me saying the water was coming in under the windows as it wasn’t sealed properly therefor my fault as its a maintenance problem. They were told multiple times by the building inspectector that was not the cause. After further investigation the cause was a massive crack up the wall next to the window ceiling to floor and cracks in the columns. I have been told again its building maintenance and I have to pay for it. In the living room my parquetry was damaged but the cause and water source still hasnt been found except that I am on the ground floor and next to the entrance where they took tiles off a swollen wall and water came pouring out.
My biggest question here is, if the Strata damn well knew there are building faults(and there are multiple) and did not declare any of it when I purchased the property. Do I have any legal legs to stand on?? The builders certificate has just ran out but there are multiple owners who habe had similar or different issues all sue to building faults. Strata damn well knows that building is full of faults yet did not declare it in any paperwork or I would not have purchased the property!.
Legally where do I stand with Strata??
Thanks