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Tiglet
Update:
The association manager's wife did come over a few days ago. We ran the shower in my unit while she observed the lower unit - no leakage. We also filled up the bathtub in my bathroom and then let it drain - no leakage. So I am in the clear for now - she now thinks it might be an issue with gutter drainage or something. But I have agreed to not use that shower until the lower unit tenants return from out of town in about a week.
The association manager's wife disclosed something to me that I wasn't expecting - that there were plumbing problems in my unit in the last few years, stemming from the master bathroom shower (the one that I am using now). I of course have a copy of the seller's disclosure from when I bought the property last August, and this is not disclosed! Apparently the previous owners had hired a plumber who couldn't figure out the issue, and he ended up replacing a bunch of parts, but the issue was never fully resolved.
The association manager's wife was quite chatty, and also found out that the neither the property manager nor the association has the blueprints to this set of condos (maybe blueprints isn't the right term - I'm talking about documents that show how the plumbing, heating, ducts, etc. are installed in each unit, or at least in each model). Apparently the builders of these condos declared bankruptcy and disappeared (and these condos were build in 2001), and the previous management either didn't have this documents or did not give them to the current management. What a mess.