The committee would like to clean up the common property parking area. Our building has high turnover of tenanted lots. Residents and past residents stored their items outside of their lot car park spaces against common property walls. Can the committee remove these items?
I am the secretary of a NSW community title property. Someone from out of the state owns one home. They sub-lets the entire home as an AirBnB.
We are having issues with noise, use of common property (pool, BBQs), etc. I'm aware that under strata title, a by-law can be created to address this behaviour, but I can't find anything of that kind for our community title complex.
Our owners corporation decided to call in the loan taken out about 24 months ago, without consulting lot owners. This amount was added to a quarterly invoice without explanation and, upon querying the additional fee, we were advised that some owners wanted to pay the loan off to save on interest.
Does the owners corporation have the authority to call this loan in without consulting the owners or raising it at the AGM?
The owners corporation agreed the property's garbage bins would be placed in the complex's only visitor parking lot. One owner, who would like access to the visitor parking space, requests that bins be stored on private property (either in the home or garage). Can owners be asked to place their bins in their garage? There are no other accessible lot spaces available for storing the bins.
The committee only gave seven day's notice of our budget meeting. Attending owners were refused entry as the committee claimed they failed to confirm attendance 24 hours before the meeting.
I attempted to attend via Zoom, but my request was ignored. The secretary declared that no recordings of the meeting were permitted.
Our strata company conducts common property termite inspections every two years. They insist we allow the inspectors to enter our lots, including personal spaces and cupboards. I find the inspection intrusive and an invasion of privacy.
If I refuse to provide access, the strata company insists I carry out an internal inspection at my own cost. Can the strata company assume invasive access into our homes while attending an inspection of common property?
I live in a four-year-old multi-storey strata building. During recent rains, four units experienced water ingress. Our strata manager advised us to commission a full building defect report. Some committee members disagree, as they believe the inspection will be assessed against the current building code rather than the code in effect at the time of construction, which could expose us to unnecessary rectifications and millions of dollars in costs.