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I’d doubt you would survive a challenge if spending owner’s funds not directly on the property that owners contributed it toward. They way around it might be to keep it off the books and simply ask owners for a cash contribution for such should they choose to contribute.
All involved need to be seen to act reasonably. Even if there are unmentioned circumstances the actions mentioned don’t appear to be that. I wouldn’t try any further to address this yourself without independent assistance as it seems too far gone on what you have mentioned. All the best with it and hope you can get on top of it asap.
Nope. Sorry, sounds terrible. Payments after the fact are almost impossible. Sure sounds like poor communications from your committee and managers. You will likely find that they are not adhering to required advance notice timeframes of your State’s Act and if you can get those details in writing you might consider approaching local police as a ‘keeping the peace’ matter. They will be inclined to visit if they think someone might get punched in the nose in the interim to having the legislation dealt with. Your in-hand paperwork detailing the breach will help them try and calm the farm if they do show some interest.
Sounds like you need to request access to do a body corporate records search and go looking for your Manager’s agreement if they won’t give this to you, which should detail additional costs, on a likely per page production cost and might say who pays.
Typically these things are done on a cost recovery basis so need to be justified, and able to be challenged if considered excessive (by you at face value, or someone authoritive (sp?) should it go that far).
The $400 sounds dear but you don’t say how many units are in your building, and they aren’t saying who hasn’t provided email contact.
Another way for you to see all this is to request a Owner’s Roll data list which will likely come at a reasonable cost but likely much less than your $400 and would then allow you part or full list contact with other owners about your current issue or things that arise in time.
Once a year you have the chance to put a Motion up for voting on at your Annual General meeting. Doing so in a simple, concise, actionable Motion will give the other owners a chance to support, or not, the thing you find wanting improvement on.
If that gets passed it must then get done regardless of what the committee has planned and lets owners have their say to the other owners not just the few on the committee. Sometimes committees are just busy and don’t see the things annoying others and a Motion brings everyone’s attention to it.
Sometimes if committee members don’t want to seem exposed I’ve found they fix the issue before it gets to a vote and if so your issue is addressed and your Motion no longer required. Happy days.
If you can’t wait that long, you can write a Motion and put it to the elected committee to vote on whenever they have their next meeting.
Feel confident to do that even though you are on the committee as a way to get the issue raised and for you to own the issue and get quotes and write it up concisely to decide a yes or a no on taking action.
If it’s a no to the Motion you can raise it again with additional information or overcoming what was it’s objectional bit of some/enough other committee members to get it approved and done.
Three things: isn’t this for the new business owner to sort out, at their cost? And if the person working for $10 is a resident would the activity not be covered under your general insurance? A simple check with the insurer would confirm such. And getting an ABN is a pretty standard free thing and very easy to get, so they should just register to get one. But for a tiny $120 a year in income that might be swallowed up in end of year extra accounting fees to keep the ATO on-side.
The owner’s committee volunteered to do stuff in the best interest of all owners. Enforcing by-laws is just one element of that, albeit, a touchy one in many cases. But if they won’t at least attempt to do so you should ask what they are there for. In Qld, an aggrieved owner can route their complaint via the committee and/or go direct to try sort the issue out, or where preferred (or safer) by issuing the relative standard form which then allows involvement of the Commissioner’s Office if thereafter still required (and as I have found, helps informs police in the event the thing might really blow up in the process).
Annoyingly, what I find that some silly committees do is to name and blame the complaining owner over handling the issue discreetly once they have determined there might well be an issue that reasonable needs be corrected.
Put it to the committee. They vote having considered pros and cons to collective owners, and the desires of tenants. If it gets up it’s added, but if not nothing changes. For the reasons you’ve mentioned that detract from the idea, and if it’s not a legislated safety requirement I don’t think I’d be voting for it. Some places just aren’t suitable for some folks, and yes we are all getting older but it’s up to owners to choose these changes, and pay for them, not tenants.
Hiya, can I suggest a more short and sharp approach: ‘MOTION That river fishing from within the pool enclosure be deemed not permissible, and that this motion be included in the by-laws. To be actioned by our strata manager.’ I wouldn’t worry about your mate who’s obviously not a fan. Your motion will get up, or not on, the day and he has as much right to vote either way as you do.
It’s one week. Hardly a major breach of contract from the owner, but you might as well ask for something on the chance they agree. As for the insurance, just call your insurer who you’d think would make temporary adjustment as to the normal situation and most likely overlook this in the same way they would should you drive away for the weekend. As to your security in the walk home from your temporary parking I imagine you may not return in the late of night but not knowing that just do some scoping in advance as to the route you will wander home by and look in advance as to where you might be happy to park, or avoid. All up this is not the hardest challenge you’ll face so don’t let it get larger than it should for you.
Timing is important here. If the Manager’s contract is up for renewal and it’s an upcoming AGM then the process can be a little easier. But the disgruntled others need put in the work to find and assess another, and then to put them up for a comparative vote as you will likely need more than one. You can explain the merits of your preferred Manager in the lead up supporting stuff to your Motion that is sent out and it essentially then becomes just another vote on the day. This gives time for folks to get their heads around it, vote early, and even avoid any in-depth discussion on the day.
But if the contract still has time to go rather than first trying to remove them you might try a vote of no confidence (can you do that?), or just a discussion directly or ideally via the committee, that they haven’t appeared up to the task, and hope that is enough inspiration for them to try a little harder.
So, we are talking about one owner occasionally slipping in among a prospective 120 other residents (80 x 1.5 per lot?) for a dip in the pool? Really? This is highly unlikely to be listed under High Crimes and Misdemeanors. I’d certainly be prepared to just let this one slide.
I disagree. Surely a resident should be allowed peaceful enjoyment of their property, and if that means prosaically fishing from your riverbank all power to you. I think you’d need to see the pool layout and ensure he’s not interfering with primary pool users or making or leaving any mess but other than that it’s a common and perfectly legal activity. And I don’t think kids are that fragile to be overly distressed by the goings on here as they would be at any public jetty and often times it would be kids fishing anyways. If you live on a river and access to it is available, I think you’d find any adjudication would over-rule any attempt to limit it.