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I do not want to take legal action but if they wont mediate with me that may happen.
Yet another request for instructions on how to fight with one hand tied behind your back. Just joking, but don’t close off any options before you have even explored them. There are so many things wrong with what the strata managers are doing that having a lawyer wrap it up in one “fact bomb” may be your best and only option.
I cannot attend the AGM because the strata managers have declared me non financial.
Have they said this? If so, they are wrong. You can attend and speak but you can’t vote or propose motions.
I suspect that there is something a bit suspicious about all of this behaviour including the strata plumber, the Strata secretary and the Strata Directors.
You really don’t need to get into conspiracy theories here and it won’t help your case. Remember the first rule of Flat Chat – never ascribe to malice anything that can just as easily be explained by stupidity.
The strata manager has no right to remove funds from your account to pay for alleged damages before that has been established and either agreed or ruled by a tribunal.
The sewer pipes are, indeed, common property but you can be liable for damage caused to them. Again, the extent of your liability has to be established by agreement or by a tribunal before anyone takes any money out of anyone’s accounts.
The strata manager has no right to exclude you from the AGM, whether you are unfinancial or not.
If the strata manager and committee continue to refuse to engage with you, you need to get their attention and the best way to do that would be via a strongly worded legal letter.
For that, if you can afford it, go to a strata lawyer like our sponsors Sachs Gerace Lawyers. Otherwise you could approach out new besties, Marrickville Legal Centre which has a free NSW-wide strata law advice service.
If you do use them and they help, sling them a few bucks. They are a non profit and those of us who can afford it should help those who can’t. You’ll find their initial contact form HERE.