Owner making all the wrong noises
QUESTION: My neighbour plays loud music late at night and when I complained he said I’m a tenant, he’s an owner so that’s tough on me. I asked the secretary of the Executive Committee and he said they can’t do anything unless the landlord makes a complaint. I asked the rental agent and he said [...]
Can we handle the truth about strata?
Executive committees are a bunch of self-serving control freaks who wouldn’t know strata law from the soccer offside rule and just want to interfere in other people’s lives … or so one popular view would have it. But how much truth, if any, is there in that common but caustic assessment of people who voluntarily [...]
Locking out my creepy landlord
QUESTION: I’m a young single female, and my landlord creeps me out. He ogles me a lot and I’ve been getting a feeling that he’s been in my flat while I’ve been at work. Last week I came home to find him in the unit. OK, I have to say he was fixing a light [...]
Wrinklies too much to bear
QUESTION: A couple on the far side of 70 renting on our ground level don’t use the blinds in their common-property-facing kitchen at all … ever … night or day. Three households can clearly see in without trying and six families can’t miss them as they pass by. We see them both in PJs, nighties [...]
Renovation rules there for a reason
Reading some of the mail we get here, you’d think all by-laws are stupid, all Executive Committee members are interfering busybodies, and all owners who want to do their own things are innocent victims of oppressive “Nanny State” rules. The truth can be a bit different… QUESTION: I need to re-do my bathroom and kitchen [...]
