Hi Eddie
Having spent a lot of my time on Executive Committees I’m happy to do it without recompense for the majority of owners who appreciate it. It takes too much time to painstakingly detail all the phone calls, photocopies, postage etc for my liking. Though there are owners out there who continually complain, and take up an inordinate amount of time of the Executive Committee over trivial matters. I’d say that in the past I’ve spent 80% of my time on 20% of the owners. The worst complainants are often the non-resident owners who don’t bother to attend meetings or even put in a proxy, and expect the resident owners on committees to ensure that they keep up the value of their properties with little or no investment, and endure the mess and abuse of their tenants. In strata schemes where there is a large proportion of non-resident owners I’d maintain it just isn’t fair to expect the few resident owners available to be on committees to do the work for nothing, where the majority of owners are only in it for purely financial reasons. Some schemes do leave it all to the Managing Agent but in my books having it unsupervised by an EC doesn’t result in the best outcomes for the property.