If you think it possible to have a low level adult conversation with the other owners or at least with one other who could make up a quorum at the AGM you could suggest not having a SM and also make the payment of Admin./sinking funds a once yearly event; the notice accompanying the minutes to the AGM (or maybe part of the minutes to save paper). An undertaking could be given at the AGM that if one or more members of the EC send out notices, confirms receipt of payments, arranges payments of bills etc. that they will be voted a payment at the next AGM of say one third of what the current SM charges. If the office holders spend ten minutes reading “Strata Living” from the Dept. of Fair Trading they will likely be considerably more familiar with Strata Law than the SM’s that I have dealt with in recent years (whose only competence seems to be arranging sending out payment notices).