Reply To: Self Managing a Strata Plan

Thanks all of you for your sage advice. The problems with my present strata are the personalities of the owners and the strata manager. The executive committee is self-nominated. i.e you just advise by email that you want to be on the committee and hey presto! You are! There is no chairman, secretary, treasurer. In fact, there are no committee meetings. Issues/advice just goes around by email and the strata manager just engages tradies as they feel like it to shift the problem off their desk. One issue that gets in my craw, that I have posted about is tenants complaining to their property manager about something minor, which involves ‘costly petty repairs’ (look that one up on the forum), without the committee even being aware of it. An example is an upstairs tenant who broke a very robust sliding balcony door handle, probably by placing something heavy on it, and the invoice to replace it came in at $880 + GST. The SM paid it out of our funds before anyone on the committee even knew about it. The SM attributes everything down to ’emergency repairs’. I cannot get anyone on my side and selling up to go elsewhere and hoping things are managed better. Agitating and lobbying for change would only antagonize an already apathetic owners committee.