#13892
Jimmy-T
Keymaster

    Just remember that all these contracts have to be approved at the first AGM of the Owners Corporation – that's you and other owners – so now is the time to see if there's been any feather-bedding, before they are all rubber stamped. 

    For instance, in the past some lift installers have sold lifts into buildings at a cut price to developers in exchange for inflated long-term maintenance contracts which get blithely approved at the initial AGM (because nobody wants to get stuck in a lift).

    Ask for a copy of all proposed contracts, get together with a few other owners if need be to share the costs, and get a strata lawyer to go through them before the AGM.  Anything that doesn't add up, reject.

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