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It is not a matter of a slack committee not holding owners to account.
The debt recovery process in of itself takes time to get to that final stage. You get your reminder notice 30 days post the due date, more time passes before the final demand letter is sent and then when it hits the lawyers, you have your ‘field call’ to track the the owner down and the time protocols there, you have then statements of claim drawn up with the court, and then more time to pass for a default judgement, and then the process of getting the money with that default judgement.
The whole process is quite drawn out when an owner wants to get that far.
Some owners who may know that system know they can exploit the process and delay payement till the final moment before the lawyers come knocking.
As to other owners seeing others not paying and join in for the free ride, most owners would not have a clue who pays and who doesn’t. Most don’t follow what their scheme is doing nor read the strata balance sheet or AGM minutes.
Bottom line is even diligent committees who attend non payers still face the hurdle of the legal drawn out process of getting the money in the first place.
One thing Strata needs to sort out is the Strata Roll where owners can just list a P.O. Box and nothing else and chasing them up is difficult when you don’t even have an address to get hold of them.