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The conventional wisdom is that the three biggest problems in strata communities are pets, parking and people.  Earlier this month on, 1 October 2022, one of those got even more confusing and divisive. Residential tenancies laws have changed.  Tenants will be able to ask their landlord for permission to keep a pet.  If the landlord doesn’t respond within 14 days, it is deemed approved. 

 

Layered over all of this will be body corporate by-laws, and the requirement for body corporate approval to keep pets.  Many tenants will either overlook or ignore this ongoing requirement in the excitement of taking up the benefit of these changes.  Strata managers and committees would do well to remind residents and investor-owners of the by-laws.

 

Read on to find out about the changes to tenancy laws and what this means for bodies corporate.

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