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Originally Posted by Hondaracer
Does the landscaper hired manicure the garden beds as well or just grass?
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In my brief experience, the grass only for the most part. Each lot has its own garden bed and that's up up to owners to maintain. Many have ripped out what was put in by the developer many years ago and put in their own plants.
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Originally Posted by westopher
The thought of having such a cunty strata is so stressful. If I find out someone in mine is going to act like that I will personally torment them until they can't handle living there anymore.
Seriously, who is so miserable and bored that they have time to police someone's gardening.
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I've never been on strata myself, but usually it's 1 or 2 people that do something stupid which ruins it for everyone. When you're managing a multi-family complex with insurance to worry about, you can't always let people do things that may violate the insurance policy, compromise the integrity of the exterior, etc. Usually, small things which may go against the rules are ignored because they're risk-managed (e.g. Leaving tires at the end of your assigned parking spot in an underground parkade). However, someone does an oil change (which is against the rules) and doesn't clean up, then you can see how a strata council would come down hard on the rest of the owners. There's probably something in your bylaws about not being able to maintain mechanical vehicles on the common property. It's probably not a good idea to use jackstands, but you'll probably get away with engine work if you don't make a mess and don't impact the use of the parkade by others.
Usually, this is where becoming friends with the resident care-taker and council members goes a long way.