Car park access issue for apartment

The management company's only relationship is with the owner. They have disabled access to any vehicles registered at the owner's address. Who lives there is irrelevant

You are advising the tenant to talk to someone who has no obligation to talk to them. I know our management company will deal with owners only. As a director I've had tenants come to my door and it's a horrendous experience, I have the right to privacy in my home. Management company decisions are made in the best interest of all owners, we have no responsibility to tenants.

The OMC does have obligations to tenants.

Under the multi unit developments act, house rules as respects the development or part of the development relating to the effective operation and maintenance of the development and with the objective of enhancing the quiet and peaceable occupation of units generally in the development, shall be made in a manner consistent with—

a) the objective of advancing the quiet and peaceful enjoyment of the property by the unit owners and the occupiers, and

b) the objective of the fair and equitable balancing of the rights and obligations of the occupiers and the unit owners,

A number of affected tenants making their own independent arrangements for waste management would not be conducive to the effective operation and maintenance of the development.

Similarly if any affected tenants got 'stuck' at exit or entrance barriers because their numberplate is blacklisted it could be highly inconvenient for other owners and occupiers, particularly if it tended to happen mostly at busier times like morning and evening rush hour. That's hardly condusive to the effective operation of the development.

I'm advising the OMC does have obligations to occupiers and it would be sensible for the OMC, either as a body or as individuals, to engage with affected tenants and seek a reasonable solution rather than potentially have things escalate into a situation where everyone might be inconvenienced.

If I'm right in where I think the development is I wouldn't hold my breath for any quick solution to the dispute at the centre of the problem you are being dragged into.

The lower ranking Google reviews for what I think is the location refer to lack of maintenance, parts of the building looking like they're ready to fall down and water getting in when it rains heavily.

Newspaper reports for the same location I'm thinking of refer to serious building defects that will take around €13,500 per apartment to rectify. The original developer went into receivership over ten years ago. Any court case may be fairly complex and involve apportioning responsibility to any combination of the block insurance, construction companies engaged by the original development company and those construction companies insurers where any of them still exist. As the total cost to rectify the building defects is estimated to be around €10 million I doubt any of the construction companies or their insurers will just roll over and pay to fix things. I can see it being a long complex drawn out legal battle.

@Meesared pm me if you want to know where I think the development is. If I'm right the above background information might help you dealing with the letting company or property management company or alternatively to look elsewhere (not easy with the current housing crisis I know).

Whatever the root cause tenants should not be held hostage in a situation which is neither of their making nor in which they have any power to resolve.

I'm not trying to complicate things. The OP has tried speaking to both the letting agency and property management company and in the OP"s words "The letting agency seemed clueless, its the property management crowd that seem to be playing dumb."

How quickly do you think the RTB will resolve the OP's (and other residents) problems with access and waste disposal?

If I am correct about the back story to the problem the OP can make a more informed decision on how they should proceed.

@Bass Reeves Not a good situation for any OMC to find itself in either.

It seems apartments are fine for everyone just so long as everything is running fine but once things go wrong it can very easily become an intractable mess for all concerned, owner occupiers, owner landlords, OMCs, property management companies and tenants alike.

The more one digs into the mess the more it becomes apparent that we, as a country, are not ready for apartment living. The whole system needs to be reinvented from the ground up.

We need proper building control, inspection and enforcement beginning from before ground is even broken, right through every stage of the building and finishing process and continuing into the operation of a development.

As it stands the system is so disfunctional it is a strong disincentive to apartment living.

You need to complain to the landlord in writing about this and keep copies of all correspondence. If you end up in a dispute at the RTB it will be crucial to have a full record, of what happened.

Since when are the guards in the business of giving legal advice or telling people what the law is ?

You don't understand you're obligations which begs the question why you are a director on management company. I'd suggest you read up on it.

Additionally if it's so awful dealing with tenants then under handed tactics as a means to get an owner compliant by targeting an innocent tenant is similar to the right of privacy in your home. The door swings both ways.

Shoe foot springs to mind