#38137
Jimmy-T
Keymaster

    The strata manager works for the owners corp – that’s all owners, not just the committee.

    My guess is that the owner concerned wanted the SM to intercede on their behalf but the SM did something quite clever (in my view) which was to divert them to a solicitor who would either tell them, correctly, that there was little under the law that could be done or write a letter making demands to which they were not entitled (bluffing, in other words) and charge them handsomely for it.

    If the SM had said, “get your solicitor to write a letter and I will tell the committee that they have to abide by the demand” then that would have been collusion.  But he or she didn’t.  To my mind this was a classic diversionary tactic; mostly harmless and largely inconsequential.

    That said, now that I’ve realised who you are, and recognise your strata scheme as having had a long history of problems with the developer and strata managers, maybe I’m being too generous.  But that doesn’t alter the essence of the response. A lawyer’s letter should make little or no difference to anything except the entitled owner’s bank balance.

    Regarding the coding, I did make that a general comment and thank you for letting me know that it didn’t show up on your screen.  Now I have to find another way of dealing with this, as you are not the only subscriber to have done this.

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