#60948
TrulEConcerned
Flatchatter

    Sir Humphy and Jimmy gave good advice.

    Regardless of what you do, here is what you must not do: do not allow what to me smells like a dodgy practice of allowing strata fees to be offset by payments/honororia to committee members.

    I write from experience.

    One strata I am involved with, for many years allowed a committee member to offset his levies with work claimed to be done (but not always verified by others that it was done) and this caused many problems:

    • How many hours did he really work? Nobody kept count;
    • What should have been a reasonable hourly fee? Nobody offered a figure;
    • Often, in small stratas, the budgeted amount of levies receivable significantly exceeded what was actually received (given the practice of “offsets”); and
    • Once you allow this practice to seed in your OC, even if over time you grow unhappy with it, it’s like an errant weed: very hard to extinguish.