🎙️ Strata Life S3E27: Disputes Amongst Residents Conflict in your building? From noise complaints to boundary issues, resident disputes can escalate fast.

In this episode, we break down strata dispute resolution, owners corporation obligations, and peaceful co-existence—with expert insights tailored for Victoria’s strata laws. 🏢⚖️

🎧 Tune in to stay informed, avoid legal pitfalls, and foster better community living.

I want to cover disputes among residents. Conflicts often arise because or due to noise, harking, pets, and the misuse of common areas. Such disputes can create tension between the community and require mediation or intervention by the strata community or its committee. It's important that where a dispute arises, the procedure of the dispute resolution, and that's usually set out in your relevant state's legislation on the dispute resolution procedure. But what is common in the principles of these types of disputes is that where you want to trigger that the strata community needs to be involved, you need to make sure that you file a complaint. And the complaint, if required by your state legislation to come in a prescribed form, you make sure that you use that prescribed form and also set out the background, include in the complaint of the background. The steps that you have taken to try to resolve this directly with the person you have an issue with, if it's practicable and also proofs as to your allegations and what outcome you want to achieve. But it's absolutely important that where you are able to, try to deal with it first, directly with that person, if possible. And if that's not possible, you should also include that in your complaint as to why it's not possible or not practicable for you to address that directly with the person you are complaining about. The proof should be included and you must so that you can demonstrate that you are serious with your complaint and you are serious about getting an outcome or achieving an outcome whether it's through the procedure or whether you want the strata community to take further legal action it's absolutely important that you add evidence to your complaints so it's a procedure but at first, the onus is on you to make sure that you establish a complaint and the evidences that you have and then follow through and monitor how long the strata community has to come back to you in respect of their decision as to whether they're going to do something or they will not do something. They do have an obligation to inform you as to the reason why they will or will not enforce the bylaws or rules.

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