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I have recently moved into a small new build in Alexandria. Only 6/20 apartments have sold and new residents have been sent two strata levy invoices .

I called fair trading and they directed us NOT to to pay any strata fees until after the AGM.  We don’t have any information from the developer about  the body corporate accounts or planned agm.

To date the developer has been completely unresponsive to all  communications . What would you suggest?

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[Jimmy-T]

Thanks for the endorsement. I found this link  which lays out the aftermath of the owners’ standing up to the developer in a similar case.  On that occasion eight or nine years ago, the developer set things off by demanding that the handful of initial owners pay equal shares of the cost of running the building, including watering extensive landscaped grounds.

The right thing to have done would have been to have the initial AGM, agree on the budget and charge the owners according to their Unit Entitlements.  One other thing that developers can’t do is to run up debts that the incoming Owners Corporation has to pay.

The best thing that could happen here is that a strata manager gets involved – but not one of those notorious ones that are more interested in their next gig with the developer than looking after the owners.

FYI: That item above is still there but some of the links from it are broken or the material has been deleted.  Hey, it was nearly 10 years ago

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