Reply To: is it time to take strata manager to court?

Woo! I think we’ve done it, and avoided court or compulsory management. It has been a lot of work and will be more work still. I’m fine with that.

We just had a well attended extraordinary general meeting, doubled our committee size, elected office bearers (I am now the Chair) and resolved to not renew our current strata managers contract, and to self manage using Our Body Corp, with review in one year and proviso to move to another strata manager (we found at least one good transparent one near to us with a range of offered service levels) if we need to.

I spoke to Strata Choice and they are fantastic, however their office was a bit far away, and we are on a strict budget now after our current manager depleted our fund and owners are not willing to increase levies and any spare money needs to go to building maintenance.

I did it by laying low, reading and re reading and re reading the strata schemes management act and regulations end to end, plus a bit of case law, numerous tips from this site about nifty parts of the SSMA, researching all possible options, ongoing discussion with the committee, obtaining the strata roll and whatever records I could get hold of, going through all these, making a list of breaches with accompanying attachment of evidence, sending this to all owners, holding a committee meeting and obtaining a resolution to increase the committee size, calling an EGM, using electronic voting as well,  doing everything by the book and just keeping on moving forward one step at a time.

It was so nice to meet more owners all together this evening, and feel a positive sense of ownership of our building and cooperation together.

Still a few more things to do.

I think we’re going to be ok.