G’day Flattchatters,
We recently got rid of our Strata managing agents after 17 years as our strata managers. We thought their service had become subpar and the management had become arrogant and self serving. The strata company were also owners of 3-5 commercial lots within our Strata Plan. This was an ” unhealthy setup ” but not illegal under the SSMA ( as Jimmy T pointed out ). A few owners have had suspicions about the cleaning contractors cleaning the offices of our former Strata Managers when they did the weekly clean of our building. I recently asked our new Strata Mgr to ask for a scope of works from the contractors. We received a scope which basically showed 80% of the job was cleaning the offices and property of our former strata managers. We are awaiting confirmation that it was all billed to Owner’s corporation account. Now I think this has been the case for the last 17years. Is someone in a little spot of bother? We are also thinking of a thorough audit of our accounts with a new auditor as well!