A couple of months ago I was at a conference where strata law university lecturer Cathy Sherry said the strata managers who help developers set up strata schemes should never be allowed to be the same entities that run the schemes.
Given the obvious potential for conflicts of interest – played out at way too many first AGMs of new buildings – you can see her point.
And I was reminded of this by a post we received this week from someone complaining about fire safety checks.
In a nutshell, the Flatchatter says that schemes trundle along using the same fire safety firms with nothing apparently wrong, then a new entity comes along and finds multiple faults that need fixing.
And guess who’s going to fix them. You got it, the new company.
So, following what I am now calling the Sherry Principle, maybe the fire companies who do the checks should not be allowed to be the same firms that charge you for doing the fixes.
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