Hi all, my father owned 3 out of 4 lots in a NSW strata, he died recently and we have an AGM coming up soon – soon enough to be well before probate is granted. We have a strata manager and I was helping him manage things before he died, formally being appointed to the strata committee as treasurer and secretary at the last AGM.

Does anyone have much of an idea about how this works with the estate’s voting entitlements and me continuing to help manage things and/or staying on the committee? I suspect that without probate I cannot formally assume the role of executor but the other owner has been relatively hands-off and did not attend the last AGM (which was actually the first in decades – we appointed the strata manager to get things back on track with compliance on things such as the AGM).

It doesn’t seem like the strata manager has much of an idea and they seem to be waiting on me to figure it out or just pretending they’re still dealing with my father and not the estate.

I’m just concerned about what would happen if we can’t get a quorum for the meeting and still won’t be able to until probate is granted. Or perhaps the other owner can appoint me as proxy and committee nominee, or even assume those roles themselves if they wanted to do so? Or things could be postponed for a few months due to the extenuating circumstances?

Not sure if this is a situation that comes up very often or there is something I should be doing right now, I’m fairly new to understanding how stratas work etc.