Well Gilgal1, Jimmy, Struggler, nobody really knows who our Executive Committee are here (except for me because I am what Jimmy might call a ‘sady or a mady’ in his new pragmatic persona). They don’t have meetings, they do everything by email, so others don’t know what’s going on. They don’t put things on the noticeboard. They don’t maintain the common property. The treasurer’s noisy renos (with supposed concrete spalling repairs paid for by the OC) commenced at 7am one day with no warning to others, following ion from his illegal renovation to his balcony door – he pleaded ignorance and a retrospective by-law at the next GM will ratify his illegal reno. The Secretary has paved a section of common property outside his unit with no permission. Three quarters of the EC are passengers; they don’t even realise they are supposed to do anything. Every resident who has a problem is told to email the rude Strata Manager, ‘Fob Off Fred’. It took 8 months and many communications to have a fallen eave repaired. The roof was infested with pigeons.
There are many other problems. The carpets need cleaning, the trees need lopping… I could go on. Did I mention there’s a phalanx of proxies controlling things and marginalisation of anyone rocking the boat?
What do you suggest? The OFT? The CTTT? No thanks, too time consuming, potentially costly and no guarantees of ‘the correct decision’ being arrived at. Oh yes, organise a coup at the next AGM? You’d be a marked man if you weren’t already.
Oh yes… everything is peaches and cream here in strata land, guys.
Jimmy, maintain the rage. Don’t soften up your book. Make it angrier.
PS Our finances are healthy. No problems paying for the Treasurers… err… concrete spalling repairs. I understand it’s unusual having… err… concrete spalling problems on out top floor, where he lives.