OWNERS' ASSOCIATIONS MANAGING PROPERTIES WITHIN RIGHTS TO
ENFORCE PAYMENT OBLIGATIONS
Dubai If you own property in Dubai and have
repeatedly failed to meet your obligations by way of service
charges, it's time to mend your ways. Those who continue to
test the limits may soon have owners associations that have assumed
responsibility for properties coming after them for overdue
payments.
With that, the neighbourly atmosphere that exists in Dubai's
freehold clusters would come under severe strain. Repeated failure
to meet payment obligations would also invite stiff penalties as
laid out under the Strata Law. It could even have retroactive
effect, as non-payments in periods before owners associations took
over can also be pursued. And the "good people next door"
may well be the ones taking the onus of meting out the penalties to
those falling back on their obligations.
