tell your agent you’re interested in contacting all owners about (mention some important matter) and for that you would like their names and email addresses to be sent to you (in no longer than say 3 days’ time). The agent cannot deny you that.
Are you sure? I don’t recall anything in the legislation that says the agent must forward owners anything. You are right about allowing inspection for a nominal fee. Take your phone and photograph or scan the lists to save you photocopying fees, if you want.
Take your phone and camera??
SP***** (self managed at the time) made me take hand notes and refused to allow me to photocopy (even on my own copier) or take pictures.
Just be nasty but nowhere does the Act prohibit the OC from being nasty.
Seems they were happy to make access to the roll as difficult as possible because some owners objected to the information being available. And this inspection only took place after the OC was ordered to make the documents available.
Lots of talk in the Act about ‘allow inspection’ and ‘make available’ but little on how copies are to be taken.
183 (4) A person entitled to inspect a document may take extracts from, or make a copy of, the
document but must not, without the consent of the owners corporation, remove the document
from the custody of the owners corporation.
Sure we all have our own idea of what ‘make a copy’ involves but what we think actually means nothing. We need to know what the Courts say it means because that is what it means.