Okay, so I don’t think someone just tried to scam me; but a guy just showed up with no notice to put draft strips on my door and new shower heads in my bathrooms. Working for a seemingly legit company who specialises in this stuff, but appearing on a Saturday with no notice, apparently at the request of the body corporate (we’re in a unit, and he seemed to be intending to do every unit, but didn’t know anything about the layout of the place beforehand).
Is this allowed? I can find guidelines for what we need to do if we change stuff, and how much notice landlords and agents have to give for inspections etc, but surely they have to let us know about this stuff so we are prepared to let someone in?
(In this case, the guy was pleasant and polite and wearing a lanyard, but that’s not exactly hard to fake, and it’s not like I have anything to check his credentials against. He took photos of the installation using an official looking app on his phone, but that seems standard for this sort of thing these days. He didn’t ask for any money or access to any parts of the house that seemed weird. The main thing that made me wonder if it was a scam or a cover is that he never once acknowledged it was weird or apologised for the fact that I didn’t know he would be coming.)
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