Shared Plumbing in Apartments: What Counts as Common Property?
There is a pipe somewhere in your apartment building right now that nobody owns in any practical sense. It runs through a wall or beneath a floor, carries water for a dozen units, and when it fails, the question of who pays for it will surprise at least one person in the building. That person is usually the lot owner who assumed the body corporate had it covered, or the body corporate that assumed it was an internal plumbing issue.
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