Reply To: Gutter Cleaning under Strata Management Agreement

Sorry, perhaps not very well expressed.

No, I do not imagine the strata manager will be climbing a ladder and cleaning gutters ever. Arranging for standard work to be done with respect to the common property up to a specified cost is within the delegation to the strata manager under the strata management agreement. I imagine the exertion by the strata manager is in issuing the work order?

In the case of non standard work, the strata management agreement provides no expenditure may be incurred by the strata manager unless instructed by the owners corporation. The strata manager has engaged additional gutter cleaning contractors at the behest of a single owner, with the additional contractors carrying out the same work as performed by the first contractors, within 3 months. The gutters are fitted with leaf guards.

Hence the need to know whether gutter cleaning is classified as non standard work before querying the strata manager. This is merely the latest in a very expensive series of contractors being engaged seemingly without authority at the behest of the same individual owner. We would like to bring a stop to this, before the bank account is empty.