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Badboldie

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  1. 7 hours ago, 4MyEgo said:

     

    Unfortunately you won't see it happening here. hence the reason you still see people smoking in restaurants and toilets at petrol service stations, no one is going to get a fine.

     

    I also smoked for about 25 years and quite in the year 2000.

     

    Lived in a unit building of 7 units, I was an owner living in the building with 4 other live in owners, 2 were rented and when I returned from a 3 month trip to Thailand, I noticed the foyer was full of cigarette smoke, like a pub was in the old days, there was nowhere for it to escape, the foyer door was closed, I said this is not on, although I let things go for a couple of days then notice new tenants directly below me smoking like chimneys, couldn't even leave my windows of balcony door open, they were chain smokers, real bad, so I jacked up to the other owners with a special meeting made that evening.

     

    I got nothing against smokers, I sit next to them at bars, afterall, that is there space too so they have the right to smoke there, it reeks, I duck and weave and move when it really gets up my nose, anyways, all of the live in owners said there is nothing they can do about it as everyone has the right to smoke, I said wrong, when a occupier of another lot (unit) creates a disturbance to another lot (unit) owner then that lot can be issues with a notice to comply, i.e. rectify the disturbance to the lot being disturbed, the other owners basically laughed at my suggestion to issue those tenants with a notice to comply, so I told them that if they didn't agree to me serving the tenant with the notice then I would take the matter to the CCT Consumer Claims Tribunal, which I did, knock, knock, knock and the door, I opened it and the secretary of the owners corporation was in a huff providing me with a letter to her stating that if the owners corporation (we managed our strata, no agent), the letter from the CCT stated that if the notice to comply was not issued under section 2 of the Strata Schemes Act within 7 days of the date on the letter then they would be fined $5,000 per day, then she asked me how she could issue them with the notice, I said your problem now, sort it and closed the door.

     

    While I appreciate everyone has a right to smoke, so does everyone else have the right not to breath in their smoke if it is entering their home, suffice to say since then legislation has been passed allowing unit buildings to go smoke free provided 50% of owners agree, so now when purchasing a unit you can check the by-laws to see if it's a smoke free building, that was both sides can pick the building of their choices, smokers building or smoke free building. 

    What country was this in? 

  2. 17 hours ago, rkidlad said:

    Little bit advice to any business in any sector: don’t have your customers imprisoned. It isn’t a good look. 
     

    People leave bad reviews. This is life. Explain why the review is wrong or at least try to settle it with the guest. This has now just made it much worse for the hotel. 
     

    And before people say it’s the law or the police did it, etc, once you go to the police to file charges for someone writing bad reviews, you can safely assume they’ll be arrested if the case is accepted. That’s how filing complaints with the police works. 

    A honest review is OK, but if true, that it was fabficated, then he deserves it. I think they did try to settle it with customer! My view just another over opinionated yank!

    Would be good to hear the customers side. 

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