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Hi 86, far out! Your situation sounded like an absolute nightmare. And I’ve been reading so many horror stories from others that I think my situation is quite manageable.
From what you’ve said, I think I’m on the right track now, and now I have some perspective I’m a lot less panicked. There’s a lot going on I haven’t elaborated in order to keep it simple. But I lived here a year and was friendly and polite with everyone before I became aware of the situation (a person who’d been on the committee sold their unit, and I think things changed in the 8 months or so between that and the next AGM which was delayed due to covid lockdowns). Initially when people expressed their dissatisfaction I reminded them we weren’t paying much, or gave them a hand to change light bulbs ourselves when strata management wasn’t responding. Generally I got on with everyone. It has been quite a shock realising the state of strata management, that it is endemic.
I think, after considering what Jimmy said, that I shocked and scared people, because I mentioned going to fair trading, not knowing at the time what the consequences of that could be. All my consternation was directed at the SM, not my committee, still yes I probably did worry them. I stopped as soon as the one person asked me to. And fair trading advised me that I need the support of my committee.
Current contract runs till October. We’re considering self management (or degrees of), (one person on our committee has done it successfully previously) so I am thoroughly researching that, and have time to do that and get to know and build trust with the committee that I’m part of. Definitely we’ve got to work together. So, we may work it out 🙂