Question: What are the rules around visitors and non-residents bringing pets onto common property and into the building? This might be friends coming to visit residents or short term letting with Airbnb.
Answer: You’re not going to be able to have a bylaw that imposes a blanket ban on visitors or guests bringing pets into the building.
The rules are going to be much the same. You’re not going to be able to have a bylaw that imposes a blanket ban on visitors or guests bringing pets into the building. Why? because it may well be possible for some pets to be brought into the building without creating problems for other residents.
If we think of some examples, we can think about a small little chihuahua carried in lady’s handbag, I know it’s stereotypical, but that may well be a way that a guest can bring a dog into a building without having a detrimental effect on anybody. It’s a bit of an extreme example, but that’s just one.
So no, you’re not going to be able to ban visitors or short term stay guests from bringing pets into the building. You’re going to have to regulate it, and you’re going to have to require them or the people they’re visiting to get permission for them to bring the pets into the building, and you’ll only be able to withhold that permission if you have a reasonable basis for doing so.
This post appears in Strata News #503.
Adrian Mueller
JS Mueller & Co Lawyers
E: adrianmueller@muellers.com.au
P: 02 9562 1266
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