Re: Bully Strata Manager

Thank you both for your responses. I am astonished to learn that the Secretary is supposed to be doing everything I am doing. As long as I have lived in our strata building, the previous long-time Chairman (a man who worked) was the person we complained to, who communicated with the SM, who instigated all repairs and new works and chaired all meetings, including the AGM.  So, I am just following in his footsteps and everyone is going along.  As I mentioned in my first post, all the other SC members work, whereas I do not and am available in the building to let in tradesmen, attend to immediate problems, like someone’s power going off. (Amazing how many people don’t know there are electricity cupboards in the building.)

There are five members on our committee, two of whom rent out their properties and do not live in the building. The woman who is supposedly the Secretary and who does live in the building, is the one who is always unfinancial and has been since I have lived here. She just pays off her levies over time and every year she is elected to the SC (which I think suited the previous Chairman).  I raised her financial status with the SM and the previous Chairman last year, only to be fluffed off, and nobody else seems to care. I don’t want to press the issue, because I don’t want to embarrass her.  I just feel she shouldn’t be on the SC.

I also don’t think she is capable of dealing with the issues I am dealing with at the moment, eg, the window audit, internal painting quotes and works and major works coming up within the next few years.

Is it feasible that I just say I will become Secretary and she can be Chairman?  The other people on the SC are professionals and I think would not be interested in so much work – and, with so little co-operation from the SM, I am fast losing interest.