Feel like theres no route to go from here besides being compelled to give in and move away.
Been renting an apartment for the past 3 years and the neighbour in the level below us just moved in and recently has been comming up to our doors every single day for the past month and sometimes multiple times a day telling us he can hear noise generated by our heavy footed walking. Obviously after a first few times of his complaint, we try to accomodate. But even then, he still complain when we did absolutely nothing.
We have 2 small chihuahuas living in our apartment which was allowed in by our agent at the time we moved in. Now after 6 months of him comming to our doors every day, sometimes 11pm at night when we were sleeping, we decided to ignore him. But in doing so, he turned furious and began threatening us to open doors by saying "you better watch your back" (in chinese) and "when you come out, i'm gona bash you" (in chinese).
Obviously the police were called and they told the neighbour he is not allowed to come up here to harass anymore otherwise he'll get charged. So that stopped him.
However, we just received a message from our agent who got a letter sent to them by strata saying there will be a new no-dog policy and a letter from the neighbour informing us that we need to get rid of the dogs by 15/6 otherwise he will call tribunal and police to witness that we violate this new no-dog policy.
Is there any thing we can do there? Seems like theres no path to go but to move. Can strata suddenly make a policy like that? Our agent is in discussion with strata at the moment. Please help fellow ozbargainer.
UPDATE:
Thought I might give an update. Well not really of an update because things have stagnated. Not getting any responses back from owners corp or agent. And still waiting.
The guy downstairs after receiving a warning from the police to not come up again to harass us, just started banging on walls every now and then. He would bang walls and ceiling @ 11pm every time some sort of noise were created. Worse is, he would bang when my same-level-neighbour would make some noise. We asked the people 2 levels below us to report them to owners corp, but everythings moving so slow. Its just unbearable and fighting a pointless battle. Considering to move. Once we found a place to move, ahhhhh helllll nawwwww mayne all hell will break lose on the floor.
Property managers are frequently careless. You may have signed an agreement with the owner through his agent but that doesn't mean his agent hasn't consented to a condition of the lease that isn't allowed by the buildings Body Corporate.
The owner's contract with the Body Corporate is a separate and generally overriding agreement.
If the agent has given a consent that the owner isn't allowed to give… then you will be contravening the rules of the building and the likelihood is someone will ask you to lose the dogs or leave.
You would have reason to seek compensation from the agent if that is the case.