FACT: No NSW strata manager has ever lost their licence just for being really, really bad at their job. No SCA member has ever been bumped from that self-serving organisation for the same reason. It’s an body created and maintained to protect strata managers and their service providers, regardless of what other services it may provide.
And that’s fine, until they start telling people (usually via naive journalists) that they represent owners. If that’s the case, how can they justify 20 per cent commissions on mandatory insurance premiums? The SCA-NSW could end that with the stroke of a pen.
And how about embedded networks – a way of transferring the cost of infrastructure from the developers to the off-the-plan purchasers? What do some (but not all) strata managers do? The SCA-NSW’s hierachy issues statements saying they support reviews of the system, at the same time as the companies they own are loading up agendas for the initial AGMs with contracts that the majority of purchasers – especially first-timers – can’t read and wouldn’t understand if they could.
It’s utterly shameful and if you want to test if the SCA-NSW represents owners, take a complaint against a strata manager to them and see whose side they are on.