Imagine you have settled into your new rented apartment and you get a notice slipped under your door saying you are required to take your turn putting out the communal rubbish bins every, say, six weeks.
You check your lease and it says nothing about a bin rota. So what do you do?
Many tenants pitch in – it’s only once every few weeks, after all. But some owners won’t even do their bit so why should you?
The bin rota is a quaint hangover from the old days when strata unit residents just mucked in and looked after their buildings themselves.
But as the Flat Chat brains trust has been discussing here, those days are long gone and owners and tenants alike are taking the ‘bin there – ain’t doing that’ approach.
“In terms of tenants … they are paying rent and I think it is reasonable to expect that that sort of thing would be taken care of,” says Scotlandx.
“The simple answer is to employ someone to do it. That’s what we do, and the person who does it also washes the bins out, because smelly bins are horrible.”
Pay the money or put out the bins? Now that’s what I call a First World problem!