Reply To: Damage caused by OC ignoring reported faults

tina wrote:

Hi Sammy

You must get everything in writing. The executive committee is not giving you a consistent story. Please put together all emails, text messages and paper correspondence to confirm what you are saying. I hope you have a written statement from your workman from five years ago.

From my own experience in NSW, you cannot claim that the owners corp “refused to fix something” unless you first ask them to do it. If you have not done so already, put your request in writing. Then get their response in writing.

Then ask a strata lawyer how you should proceed. I don’t know why you would be liable. A strata lawyer can advise you.

Thankyou for your thoughts. Unfortunately we had 6 different strata managers within the same firm. Nothing was ever put into writing (I note that is still the case when topics are raised in AGM’s ). Always very careful when anything is raised nothing embellished as no paper trial is wanted or building problems mentioned in any seriousness. The emails sent to the strata firm and not replied to – our chairperson in our building is not on email – can only phone not directly to her as she will only abuse you and hang up on you if she doesn’t want to deal with it. Majority of the time she just attacks you as units mostly rented and no one stands up to her and no one owners are not interested (landlords). Just no maintenance ever happens unless it is steam cleaning the carpet and ordering tradies around servant master style. The strata company just say oh it will end up being a developer’s site.