The residents here still believe that having a strata manager means that they arrange and do all the work. They agreed to sack the last strata manager because nothing was being done. Now they are waiting for the new strata manager to get things done. They just don’t get it.
With the old strata manager things did get done when the old EC told them to go ahead. Then the new EC came inboard. Nothing h been done since. Now the new SM has been inboard for over 4 months. Nothing. But still I have heard the residents say they are waiting for the SM to get the outstanding maintenance works done.
I would like the strata manager to be paid to run the place. It would be fantastic to advise them of a problem, and know that it will be attended to. But these residents do not want to pay for anything in this complex. They want their levies low, but want the OC to cover everything and anything, want someone else to do everything, arrange everything and believe that any problem in the complex is for someone else to notice, report and fix.
I truly believe that they are all sitting around waiting for me to do something. When I was on the EC that is what I did. I arranged the quotes, tradespeople, meetings, did the odd jobs, got onto the SM. And I believe that the EC is waiting for me to do something. But they can wait all they want.