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Thanks Whale

It seems to me that your advice is the right approach and it is essentially the same advice as Jimmy gave, in the sense that the new owner is informed that the alterations are not approved, and has the chance to insist something is done, either by the old owner rectifying the situation, or by the alteration of sale price so that the new owner has the resources to do so themselves.

I was only hoping to use the advice made by mini to help me convince the EC and SM that there is some urgency to the matter – because the usual model of indecision and procrastination about actions to take could well mean the settlement period ends and the responsibility for the alterations passes to the OC.  I certainly wasn’t considering legal action.

The other problem I have is that the EC rely on the SMs advice above anything else, and the SM is not responding to my concerns other than to say she is forwarding my emails to the EC.  So we are doing a silly dance where I express my concerns, she refers it to the EC (because quite rightly they should give her instruction not me – except that I wasn’t trying to instruct her) but the EC don’t have the information to decide what to do or what to instruct her.  The fact that I was expressing my concerns in order to collect information from her to help out the very busy members of the EC makes it all the more ludicrous.

So in effect I can’t see how i have any ability to effect what action is taken (i think I explained I am not on the EC) because the SM won’t respond to me (or give the EC the answers to the questions I asked), and the EC only want to do what she says.  I have achieved something in getting the issue and the need for action raised at all.  The fact that your advice does not seem to be the course the SM has chosen to take concerns and disturbs me but in the real world situation it seems beyond me to influence it.

Sometimes you have to choose your battles, and at this point I think I have to leave this one and hope it will somehow muddle on to the right outcome, even if not by the right means.  

Now I need to move on to be annoyingly pedantic about the need to inform all the owners that meetings are taking place and distribute agendas before them.  (I won’t be surprised if the fact that the non-resident previous owner has not been informed about meetings (except AGMs) for who know how long, will arise to muddy the waters of this problem).

Even though I feel I cant do anything about this issue for now I am still interested in more comment on the question – its all educational and may equip me (or others) to know how to manage such situations in the future.

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