There’s a truism about giving people a little power; the less they have, the more they want to use it.
Take the treasurer in one Flatchatter’s apartment block, who refuses to release the funds for anything that doesn’t benefit his apartment directly.
So, when a balcony balustrade was dangerously unstable and the owners collectively decided to get it fixed, he declared the meeting invalid because some of the other owners involved were unfinancial.
The work was done anyway – the balustrade was dangerous – and approved retrospectively at the next AGM but the treasurer is refusing to pay for it as, he says, you can’t pay for work that hasn’t been properly approved.
Now there are all sorts of response why the treasurer is wrong but there is a whole other question demanding an answer here: why are they letting this power-crazed penny-pincher anywhere near their finances?
You can read all about it – and few suggested solutions on how to get him to pay – and maybe something even more radical, HERE.
Elsewhere in the Forum
- Were the unit entitlements for our new apartments calculated wrongly? That’s HERE.
- How do we sack our underperforming strata manager (who’s part of one of the big players)? That’s HERE.
- Who pays for connecting NBN from the basement to the apartment? That’s HERE.
- How do we convert from Company Title to strata? That’s HERE.
- How do we stop our neighbour from bonking on his balcony? That’s HERE.
- Committee demands we pay for by-laws for unapproved work done by previous owners. That’s HERE.
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Balcony bonker, broken payment system, unfair unit entitlements, bad strata manager and committee want new owners to pay for old reno by-laws.
[See the full original blog post at: Forum: Broken balcony exposes strata treasurer To comment on the post, click on reply here.]
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