Question: Can an Onsite Manager evict a short term let guest? Can a Body Corporate evict a guest?
Answer: Possibly, and no, respectively.
The short answers are possibly, and no, respectively.
The longer answers: if the onsite manager is also the letting agent for the lot, then they may have capacity to take that kind of action against their guest, as they are the ones with the direct relationship with the short-term occupier and signed them up to be staying there. An onsite manager does not have eviction powers on behalf of the body corporate or another owner.
Bodies corporate have no powers of eviction per se. The body corporate (e.g., a committee rep) is able to liaise with Police, if it gets to that point, in relation to occupiers.
Your issue appears to be one of disturbances in relation to short-term letting. Your best first step, in my view, is to engage with the owner of the lot from which the disturbances are usually occurring. Issues around short-term letting in strata are being looked at in Queensland by government, although I don’t have any details on what might result, or when.
This post appears in Strata News #623.
Chris Irons
Strata Solve
E: chris@stratasolve.com.au
P: 0419 805 898
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