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The BC will give you a spreadsheet with all the owners contact details on it. You are entitled to the information. 

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It may also be worth checking with the local building authority on the building code for Tub installations as a wetsealing membrane is not required under a bath. Especially 22yrs ago. 

The sealing process is carried out to the sill or top edge of the tub and the tub itself is the water proof surface.  

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Just an update.

Unfortunately the caretaker has won out completely in this instance. 

The extension was granted, His rental pool with the assistance of the committee members that he has paid for managed to out vote the rest. Those that opposed the caretaker with their own opinions were verbally harassed and abused in emails to the point where they just gave up. The caretaker and his crew sent out pre filled in voting papers. 

The complete committee is now bought and paid for (All 7 members). These are now the very aggressive abusive sociopath types without reasoning abilities. If it opposes the caretaker it will be hammered down. 

The Standard module was voted down in lieu of the accommodation module. This is just remarkable as the voting lines the pocket of the care-taking entity and reduces the overall financial benefits to all the owners. 

The extensive campaign run by the caretaker and his committee was so vile at times people just had to leave the arena. 

The previous committee members motion to have the ten year old building with defective render and block-work, (Which are listed as defects by the Queensland Building Construction Commission & is affecting our insurance) repaired was voted down as the caretaker opposed it.

Stupid thing is the money is there in the funds to do this work without issues. One of the caretakers committee members has a friend that also quoted but was 180K more expensive, we believe that they require time to allow a moderation to the quotation to ensure the preferred suppliers get the work in this case. It’s all about kick backs with these people. 

The RAN (Remedial Action Notice) will no longer be enforced and will be removed by the caretakers committee in the next meeting. 

The management rights were put up for sale straight after the AGM now that the extension went through and the full committee is the caretakers. Once again these actions have lined the caretakers pockets only, with the actions of these people increasing the sale amount in excess of 500K. 

Even less work is being done that’s covered in the agreement than before. 

An anonymous lot owner has submitted a Work Place Health & safety form detailing unsafe work practices and the lack of a Work Place Health and Safety Management Plan that the Caretaking entity is to be in possession of.

The Body Corporate is meant to also have a copy of the Plan. (Its in the agreement as well as WH&S Legislation). This anonymous owner is now being hunted by the committee members, starting with my wife & I because we live onsite.

We are aware and always have been of the WH&S issues & received our first passive aggressive email yesterday and of course the follow up aggressive phone calls. We will keep all communications for when they are required. 

On a positive note: We may have something to take to the adjudicators with the defects not being addressed with the forceful campaign to stop them being run prior to the AGM. Unfortunately after reading through so many decisions carried out by the adjudicators there are not too many positive outcomes for the lot owners, in fact hardly any. 

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Thank you JimmyT, we are working with the UOAQ on this topic and find their service incredibly useful. (Invaluable in fact). We would be lost without them. Any unit complex in Qld is crazy not to be a member. Unfortunately the membership is to be cancelled as soon as the full committee is owned by the caretaker this AGM. The other big push will be to replace the Body corp Managers to one that is more sympathetic to the caretaker. 

Our advice to date is to raise motions in the upcoming AGM. this way the information is out there for the lot owners who read the minutes of the AGM (Which I fear is not many).

Being slandered in newsletters etc to owners as well as bullied by committee members is not an enjoyable environment. 

To date we have not attempted to re-dress any of the slander or to approach lot owners with any of the issues or explanations. This way it just looks like a one way street. The last thing we want is to look like complainers or whingers etc that’s the quickest way to get people to shut off to the real cause. A mail out or newsletter is being considered but very difficult to get a message across in the format as suggested by you to not disclose the perpetrator. However this approach is being adopted. 

As soon as any information from the UOAQ is detailed to the caretakers committee members it is shut down and ignored and any non committee member who raises it are targeted. The caretakers committee members are extremely protective of the care-taking entity despite the obvious negative effects on their properties. 

Category 1 defects are impacting on our insurance which the Caretakers committee members are either ignoring or stating lack of awareness by themselves simply means they don’t exist. We will most likely be non insurable as has been stated to us in the past by the only insurance Co’ that will insure us.

We are currently looking into the legislation with regards to liability and the situation of Body Corp Committee members code of conduct and liabilities with regard to ignoring defects/maintenance issues affecting the scheme. 

The other advice is too just accept the fate that the care taking entity is well supported by the advice of others within the system and that the system is tipped against the lot owner in this situation. With the Qld system the way it is there will be no win for us in this instance. Best we save our energy & sit tight until the system is changed/amended. 

Legal advise is to have the RAN enforced, however the committee (Caretakers) refuse to accept this and reject all requests to have the solicitors address the RAN, The RAN will never raise its head again when the complete committee is controlled (As stated by the current four committee members).

Anyway the real issue I guess is the system that allows care taking entities to take over the running of complexes and their committees.  Ours won’t be the only one that’s owned in Qld and the UOAQ is attempting to get the legislation changed. 

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