JimmyT it is not fair of you, particularly as moderator, to start off by ‘verballing me’ by saying: “it reads very much like you are blaming the Strata Manager”. That is clearly not what I said.
Just as there are unscrupulous developers, there are strata managers who take the money and don’t do any more than tell ECs what they need to do but don’t necessarily see it done. (Just like the certifiers, it occurs to me.)
I can understand you getting bit twitchy about someone raising the issue of some strata managers’ modus operandi. They may be your sponsors, I realize, or maybe you want them as sponsors. But the big strata managers, or should I say, THE big one, has got their way of doing as little as they can legally get away with and if ever the proverbial hits the proverbial, they just say: ‘Well it’s not us, it’s the Executive Committee.”
The system you suggest where strata managers must get the things done that are required by law sounds like a good one to me.
And quite obviously if you buy into an apartment complex and don’t understand what you’re getting in to, your ignorance cannot be an excuse. Caveat emptor can sometimes be cruel.