I’ve had a strata manager who held AGMs in his living room and prefaced every meeting by telling us how he had been trained to kill by Mossad.
Another persuaded the EC of our block to sign an agreement saying that he wasn’t responsible for any decisions that he made regardless of the outcome (he then spent our entire sinking fun getting three out of 36 very ordinary windows renovated by a heritage restorer rather than a joiner).
Another one put our seal on a building management contract that we didn’t want to sign anyway because the developer had installed an incompetent and corrupt fool. To make matters worse, he didn’t notice they had sneaked in a clause saying that if we forced them to replace the building manage we would have to pay the idiot’s salary until an equivalent job could be found for him.
So I know all about bad strata managers … and I know a few good ones too. And really we shouldn’t make sweeping statements about the whole industry based on a bad manager who’s badly managed by a bunch of amateurs who don’t know any better.
I’ve been writing about strata for about 10 years now and I agree, there are some doozies out there, but I can also say, hand on heart, the whole industry is a lot more professional than it used to be.