A disabled apartment owner uses the disabled visitor car park as their permanent car space. This causes a problem for any other owners who may have visitors who also qualify for that spot.
What are the laws regarding the use of disabled visitor spots in apartment complexes? Can the committee take any action to make this spot available to visitors on an ongoing basis?
How can the partner of our council of owners chairperson be an external approver of invoices when our bylaws clearly state one vote per lot owner? Despite the partner having no voting rights, both the chairperson and their partner have approval rights. How does that work?
Our strata scheme includes a by-law that places maintenance responsibility for each unit on the individual owner, given that the units are for their exclusive use.
The strata manager deleted this when they rewrote our by-laws for consolidation. Did they have a right to do this? If an owner claims their maintenance on the strata, so will all owners, which will result in higher strata fees.
After several years as chairperson of our council of owners, I recently resigned due to family health matters. Until a few days ago, I could view our daily financial statement through an online portal, along with several documents and invoices for our unit.
Our strata manager says that I no longer have access to the statement of financial affairs because I am no longer a strata council member.
Who regulates the performance of our strata council, its decision-making and compliance with legislation? Does the strata council submit information and reports to Landgate?
Our estate is a large single-storey survey strata with no direct employees. It is located in a Shire Tree Preservation Zone. Marri trees on the estate's common property drop lots of honky nuts. Several people have fallen and sustained injuries.
Is the strata company required to provide a safe environment for contractors, volunteers, residents and visitors?
Our strata company presented a colour scheme at the AGM that has slight variations from our current paint colours. Due to the colour change, does the strata company need to send a circular resolution through the strata manager for owners' approval? Or is there a quicker, easier way to get approval, such as an email to all owners?
We own 1 lot in a duplex of seven duplexes built around 2000. Each duplex has a common wall between the two lots. Four of the duplexes are two-storey.
Our strata manager informed us that, because we are survey strata, we can no longer be jointly insured and each owner will need separate property insurance.
We are getting the common areas valued so that the strata manager can get quotes for insuring just the common areas.
We have 6 units and 5 committee members. Four committee members engaged a contractor to fix barge boards and eaves. I was advised the contractor would use a scissor lift at the southern end of the building, but they went to the rear instead, placed the lift on the retaining wall, and cracked it in five sections.