🐾 Can Strata Ban Your Furry Friend? 🏢⚖️

Strata laws in Victoria are evolving—can committees legally say no to pets? In this episode of Strata Life, we uncover the legalities, owner rights, and what VCAT has to say! 🎙️🐶🐱

🔹 Know your legal rights

🔹 Strata by-laws & pet policies

🔹 How to challenge unfair rules

Stay informed, protect your rights, and ensure a pet-friendly strata living! 🎧✨

In this episode, I want to talk about the question ultimately asked by those, especially who are new in living in strata communities. And that is, is it illegal to ban pets in strata community, environment communities? And the answer to that question is it depends. It depends if the pet is causing a nuisance and there's usually three key reasons or three key causes in having a strata community declare that the pet is a nuisance. Number one, if you leave your pet on common property and it just leaves a mess, you're not cleaning up after the pets and you're just leaving it to wander around the development, leaving feces around or even near in your lot that is causing awful mess and smell, and that hinders others from enjoying their common property. The second one is if your pet is causing excessive noise that is causing others to no longer enjoy living in the community, that could cause them to make a complaint. That is another reason that that could be a cause of your pet being banned. And finally, safety. At all times, you must make sure that whilst on common property, your pet is in a lead. Yes, of course, we all think our own pets are safe, but you just really never know how they behave. So, as an owner, it is your responsibility to make sure that they are always in the lead whilst on common property. Follow all that to make sure that not only is your pet safe, but of course, your neighbors, your fellow residents and co-owners must also feel safe, and they have a right to enjoy common property and you would too if you follow those three key things in managing your pet. Remember as an owner it is your responsibility to make sure that your pet is safe and also the residents and the community. So, is it illegal to ban pets? No, it's not illegal. It could be just don't give them any reasons. They mean the strata community. Don't give them any reasons to ban your pet from the development.

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