[brianm788]

Well, thanks very much grateful owners. I’m one of five committee members in a 50 year old block of 24 units in Sydney which has a pool, and lift. We have had the same committee for 10 years and we have all HAD IT. None of us want to be doing this, it is very onerous but there are no other owners willing to take over, many are quite elderly, the ones who rent their units out aren’t interested and the rest are “too busy”. We are actually working our guts out all year  for a very small expenses allowance per annum  of $250 which would be about 2.5 hours work p.a. if we were paid . We are all retired professionals so the other owners are, I feel, getting a bargain. Not a week goes by that one or more of us don’t put in several hours supervising trades, fire inspections, big jobs like leaking roofs, blocked sewers, painting the building, attending to by-laws, researching E.V. charging etc, there is always something needing attention. Do owners realise that every time something goes wrong, a committee member has to meet the person who comes to fix it, show them what the problem is, find a set of keys for them so they can use the toilet etc and make sure the job is done satisfactorily and keys retrieved. All for $250 a year, it is actually an insult. I find the above comments all rather disappointing. I suppose owners in well run strata schemes have nothing to complain about so don’t bother commenting. We all have a lifetime degree in common sense which didn’t come easily and is invaluable in running a strata block. I don’t think we need a degree in strata management, the degrees we all have are more than enough qualification. Readers may perhaps gather that we are all p….d off……

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