Idiot Tenants Dumping Furniture Garbage In Garbage Bay In Apartment

frostman on 12/11/2018 - 20:31

Apartment with 40-50 units, having a shared garbage bay.
So each time these idiot tenants move out (mostly renters) they dump their old washing machines, lounges, fridges, patio heaters in the garbage area.
Costs the owners' corp about $400 per ad-hoc rubbish pick-up. This is happening almost monthly, no one sees them.

Any ideas how to kerb this issue?

We suggested placing a token pass to access the bay which records the last accessed, but not sure it will do much?
There is also a camera in the bay, but some douchebag said you can't really identify them and hard to do anything.

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Comments

  • Quantumcat on 12/11/2018 - 20:38
    +1

    The token plus camera which can see the whole garbage bay in its field of view should do it. Then you'll have an access time & person, then see that before the access, no broken washing machine, then after the access, broken washing machine. You won't have to identify them on camera, the token will do that. You can add to the strata agreement that hard rubbish being left results in a charge of $400 or whatever it costs to have it removed. Owners can pass this on to their tenants.

    • spackbace on 12/11/2018 - 21:19

      But then how is that any good?

      OK so you have video evidence of a tenant dumping, you then need to
      A) find out unit number
      B) find out names
      C) find out if they own or rent

      If they rented and have now vacated, you then need to determine the property manager, if they have forwarding details etc and then what, send a threatening letter to that forwarding address? Cops won't care about illegal dumping, they have speeding motorists to catch 😉😂

      • MrHyde on 12/11/2018 - 21:37
        +4

        Actually, the body corporate does not need to do all that.

        The token would be associated with a unit number. The body corporate sends the fine/invoice to the Unit owner. Its the owner's problem to recover the money from their tenant.

        • Quantumcat on 12/11/2018 - 22:21
          +1

          Yes, this is what I was thinking.

      • Mummy2 on 12/11/2018 - 21:45
        +1

        The units where my property is the owner pays no matter whether the owner lives there or it is tenanted.
        The strata then only needs to know the unit number that has dumped stuff and sends out an invoice. This is in the strata agreement.

        For those owners who lease their properties the rental agreement informers the tenants that they are liable for this fee if they are dumping stuff - the fee comes out of their bond.

        I do not have any experience of how this works in practise i.e. if the bond is returned before the owner would be invoiced by the strata or not, or what happens if the bond is already not returned due to other damage when the tenants move out.

  • jjjaar on 12/11/2018 - 21:27
    +7

    Are there any signs saying not to dump furniture? Or what the penalty is if they’re caught. They legitimately may not know they can’t do that.

    • frostman on 13/11/2018 - 08:07
      +1

      Good point, I will raise it to STRATA to make a sign, thanks

    • [Deactivated] on 13/11/2018 - 10:28
      +1

      the people in my unit block can't even manage the "don't put plastic bags in the recycling" signs that we have in our garbage area

  • bobbified on 12/11/2018 - 21:32

    tenants move out (mostly renters) they dump their old washing machines, lounges, fridges, patio heaters in the garbage area.

    Isn't that what the rubbish area is for?

  • thatonethere on 12/11/2018 - 21:40

    Ages ago I was in an apartment block with this prob. They ended up installing a bollard in the corridor to the skips so you couldnt get more than a garbage bag thru. But then people just dumped anywhere.

  • kahn on 12/11/2018 - 23:08

    Sniffer dog.

  • [Deactivated] on 13/11/2018 - 01:58

    Get strata to leave a notice about council free rubbish pick ups.

  • John Kimble on 13/11/2018 - 07:14
    +1

    So each time these idiot tenants move out (mostly renters) they dump their old washing machines, lounges, fridges, patio heaters in the garbage area.

    Take and sell on gumtree/FB marketplace.

    Win/win!

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