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I’m sure it’s all bs. If I visit the office and inspect the original copy, will these info, like email addresses be there? Or he still could hand me an incomplete copy just like he did? What can I do or show him to let him come to sense and send me a complete version?
Suspicions aren’t facts, as President Trump is currently discovering. There are a few assumptions there that are likely to trip you up. You can’t be sure that he hasn’t provided you with the full list of email addresses, regardless of your feelings.
One way to check would be to trawl through all the emailed material relating to the committee and AGMs. I haven’t met a strata manager yet who hasn’t at least once accidentally sent material out as “cc” rather than “bcc”, exposing everyone’s email addresses.
Failing that, you could threaten him that if you discover later that they have failed to provide email addresses then you will take action at Fair Trading (I wouldn’t recommend this, but it’s an option).
A better method may be to send everyone whose physical address you now have a letter or postcard that says something like “The value of our property is under threat. Please email or call me for more information, so we can stop this now.”
What happens next is up to you but I would just tell people that the building is not being managed according to strata law, no one outside a tight circle is allowed to check what is being done or, more to the point not done, and there need to be more checks and balances before the value of the property is seriously compromised.
However, if you go down that road, be very careful what you say. Wild accusations will make you look like the problem, rather than the solution, and could see you on the wrong end of a defamation suit.
Or you could have a lawyer’s letter drawn up and sent. That might rattle their cage, especially if they are reluctant to lie to an officer of the court.