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If I were you, I would present a plan of action to your committee, gently pointing out that you all have a legal obligation maintain and repair common property. I would also point out that apartment rents and property prices are falling and rental availability has never been higher, so not maintaining the property is affecting the rents and values of properties that look run-down and neglected.
Stage 1 would be a clean-up, which they can all either agree to help with on a voluntary basis or there are services (like Jim’s Gardening) that will do it for a fee, which would come out of strata funds. I think in this instance a financial stick will work better than carrot.
Stage 2 would be a survey of what needs to be done to the block and when to bring iot up to a decent standard.
Step 3 would be to devise a 10-year maintenace budget to make Stage 2 a reality rather than a wish-list.
You may find that the majority of owners will be on-board, all they needed was for aomeone to do the legwork.