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Hi,
Living together is certainly a challenge when many different people share the resources. Normally, talking through problems and openly discussing them should be a way to find solutions.
But, not always. Here is what I have gone through at my place. [Link removed here as it the material is potentially defamatory. If you want to defame individuals and companies, do it on your web page, not mine. -JT]
But, since I became suspicious of their actions, I uncovered many other wrongdoings. The problem is: majority of owners are passive, 50% of them are investors who are never getting truthful information (I cannot get to them because their details are hidden by the managing agent), and those that support the aging EC (most of them are in their 70-ies and 80-ies) are very organised not to allow any talks at meetings.
The original managing agent realised things were getting wrong for him and he “suddenly” retired in April 2011. The new one (who is very good friend with the old one) is not much better.
The biggest problem is to publish information that can reach all owners. And to get the EC to provide thruthful minutes of the meetings and answer legal questions. Take a look at one example: for more than a year now I have been asking about the exact amount, maturity dates and the term depost rates for our funds. It took the managing agent and the committee a year to provide the amounts BUT not rates or maturity dates. Even such a simple questions is not answered.
I can write a book anout the events here. Sadly, even at the CTTT (I attempted to go through it) told me openly they were overwhelmed by the amount of information I provided. It looked as though they did not have the time or skills to differ facts from fraud.
Any comments from the forum? I am planning some other actions now. The advice to ask owners to be more active will not work. People that are not “part of the gang” are not willing to participate, although their money and investment is at stake.
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First of all there are a couple of phrases you should maybe think about: 'Too much information' and “less is more”.
Look at the title you put on your post (before I shortened it):
“COMMENTS SOUGHT: EC at Large Stratas Scheme and Attempted Fraud to allow Telecomms Tower in the Complex”Do you see any other posts in this whole forum that are as long and complicated as that?
I mean, I hate to be rude but when you feel you have overwhelming evidence that something is wrong, who are you overwhelming?
The CTTT have already wilted under the weight of your evidence and they are paid to deal with this kind of thing. Do you really expect your neighbours to be any more receptive?
The point I'm making is that you may be scaring people off. Anyone trying to change the way things are run in their building faces two obstacles. The first is to persuade the other owners to stop supporting the status quo. The second is to get them to follow you.
And even if they are worried that the incumbents may not be doing a good job, they may not be convinced that you'd be any better.
When it comes to their homes, most people are reluctant to embrace change unless unless they are convinced it's for the better.
So if you really want advice, mine would be to take a step back, focus your approach to a single issue and try not to sound like a conspiracy theorist. One person's righteous indignation is another's repetitive rant.
By the way, making allegations of corruption by publishing what you consider to be the facts, as you tried to do via this website, could put yourself and us at the wrong end of a serious legal action.
It's defamation by stealth and I won't tolerate it.
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Hi fchat55
This is probably not the type of advice you want to hear but it is general advice often given to people in your situation. SELL!“People who are not part of the gang are not willing to participate …”.
Same situation in my SP and people tend to head for exit turnstile as their preferred method of dealing with the problems.I understand any owner can get contact details for other owners (or perhaps their representitives) if you wish to pay for the relevant search or pay even more to have an agent collect the information. Search the Act for details.