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Thank you for responding JimmyT. My situation has gone from bad to worse!
An Executive Committee Meeting was held on Thursday last week. I was Chair. One Lot, the Lot that causes most issues, was declared unfinancial but we went ahead anyway with the intent of resolving at least some of the long standing issues. Three hours of argument followed but nothing was really resolved satisfactorily. The lot that was unfinancial then sent an email on Friday to say the meeting was invalid, as the final agenda had not been received within 72 hours of the start of the meeting.
The Lot that was unfinancial is also responsible for $300k of renovations which took most of 2015. They were forced into a by-law for their common property works but not for their internal works. They say there is no need for a By Law on their internal works and that they had wooden floors prior to their renovation. They say these things with such conviction and they are backed by their friends in another lot. The two remaining lots, us and the newcomers, are powerless to refute them.
The newcomers now see the absence of By Laws as the precedent, i.e. no By Laws are required by the strata plan and by extension, no By Law is required for the privacy screen they’re erected without permission.
While the difficult lot did come to the Executive Committee meeting – they seem to enjoy the confrontation, want to regain ‘control’, dictate and veto any expenditure for which they don’t have a direct benefit. They are also now refusing to receive or respond to email going forward.
The strata manager is completely ineffectual.
I suspect there will be only one meeting now, an AGM, and all lots, us included, will do as they like with respect to illegal works.
We share a lobby with the difficult lot. Tonight, as I have done for years, I will go home to various items of their furniture and their kids school bags in my lobby and the absence of light up the stairs to my apartment as they’ve re positioned our lighting so they can have a pendant light over their front door!
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