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New to the forum so ‘Hello’.
I am relatively experienced owning and living in a few different stratas in Sydney NSW but have not struck one like this before.
The Executive Committee where I have now owned for six months in a block of 30 are incommunicative, if not secretive. They refer me and my quite reasonable questions to the Strata Manager who pontificates and doesn’t ever definitively answer them; doesn’t always answer emails and is almost impossible to get on the phone and doesn’t return calls.
Things need to get done here. The financials are better than sound but the place looks like a dump. Having seen the files, there have been two OH&S checks done over the last few years with almost none of the identified issues acted on. Too many other problems to mention, not the least of which are the agendas and minutes of EC meetings tell me next-to-nothing.
I want to put a bomb under the Strata Manager and Executive Committee, so to speak. What’s best? Should I just go straight to NCAT saying the Owners Corporation is not maintaining the place properly? Or try to change things from within, get on the EC, which might be slow and very painful for everyone? Maybe I should suggest multiple motions for the AGM which is six months away?
(Yes, I know, maybe I should have looked into it a bit more before purchasing but it’s a great location, mine’s the best unit in the block and you can guess why it was a good buy—the place looks crook from the outside. There was little interest)
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I’ll suggest a softly, softly approach. Why don’t you start by attending a few EC meetings as you are entitled to do & raise your issues in a non combative manner? Remember EC members are volunteers.
@tharra said:
I’ll suggest a softly, softly approach. Why don’t you start by attending a few EC meetings as you are entitled to do & raise your issues in a non combative manner? Remember EC members are volunteers.Agreed. Ask face to face about whether there had been some problem getting the work done and perhaps offer to help arrange some of the things. Some people seem to regard it as more of a virtue to come in under budget than to spend the money and get stuff fixed. You might find that some of the EC would like to get on with works but someone is so hung up on bureaucratic process that it never happens or takes ages. Perhaps they are being too nice trying to get complete consensus rather than getting a majority and getting on with it. There are many reasons why the work might not be getting done.