You have to sympathise with strata managers sometimes. They go to a meeting, armed with all the information required to know what the best course of action is, plus the experience to know what will happen if plan B is followed rather than plan A.
Or maybe they are just aware of the limited choices available and the consequences of not taking them.
Then, for whatever reason – fear of levies, anxiety about outcomes, a persuasive bush lawyer in the room or complete lack of understanding by the owners – the meeting makes the wrong choice.
What do they do? Wait till next year? Try their argument again?
Or, as one strata manager did, say: “If you don’t follow my advice, I am no longer your strata manager”?
It could be a case of a professional saying, if the owners don’t do the right thing, they don’t want to be the one picking up the pieces?
Or it could be an irritated strata manager who can’t be bothered explaining things yet again, or perhaps has forgotten who’s in charge.
Either way, does it feel like the tail trying to wag the dog? You can put in your 10 cents worth HERE.
Elsewhere in the Forum
- Defects leaks flooded my floor, but OC won’t pay. That’s HERE.
- SM blocks strata conversion motion they helped create. That’s HERE.
- UPDATE: What can you do about a committee that won’t do anything. That’s HERE.
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