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Thank you both Jimmy and Billen, not sure if you recall my post in the other section of the forum. Our SM was initially appointed by the commercial owner who own that shed.And this SM was fooling all the residential owners including those being ECs, sometimes even we know we are doing the right thing, the SM will try ways to stop us from protecting the OCs’ rights and benefit. It’s very clear all the SM’s intention is to protect the commercial lot owner. We ‘ve been through Fair Trading and CTTT to try to get rid of this SM becuase their agreement was not legally executed at the beginning anyway, because the appointment meeting never exist, the SM made up a minutes later when then take over. Lawyer is now engaged to deal with the SM, understand the OCs are sharing the legal fees, however it’s still something extra to spend on.
My major concern is: how could such a nonprofessional SM receive their license at the first place? If they are not under some kind of association, then who manage these unqualified SMs?
@JimmyT said:
Billen Ben said:
Do not forget the EC does not need the SMs permission to take action and that the SM is subordinate to the EC. If you have the support of the EC then the EC can take action if it decides it wants to.
The problem here seems to be that the EC wants to take action and the Strata Manager is blocking them and they don’t know where to turn because the one person who is charged with helping them is doing the opposite.
If this strata Manager is a member of the Strata Community Australia, I would be writing to them asking what they are going to do about this.
I would also be taking action through Fair Trading to have this guy removed (although I’m not sure by what law that is possible).
What they are doing is quite clearly for the benefit of the person who brought them on board to the detriment of the people who pay their wages. In any other area of business life, that is called corruption but because it’s strata it’s seen as a ‘victimless crime’. It’s time someone in authority stepped in an shut this down.