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Whale said:
lovebbg,
About terminating your current Agent.
Your Agent (Strata Manager) must think that their appointment is legal, so check the “termination” clause in the Strata Management Agency Agreement that your Owners Corporation (O/C) should have signed with that Agent.
You may find that your O/C has to give 3 months written notice before you can terminate the Agreement, and that approach may well be easier (and quicker) than the CTTT's adjudication process.
About the water meter – you really should let a Licensed Plumber access your garage. Just make sure that you get a Certificate of Compliance from the Plumber as that will tell you exactly what work has been done.
Dear Whale,
Yes you are right, the agent did think they have a valid agreement. Therefore me and another EC ask for an inspection of the agreement. And you know what we found out?!! — The agreement was signed by one owner (the commercial lots owner, who introduced this agent at the beginning). We brought the agreement to the lawyer, and an legal letter was given to the agent stating they are not properly appointed due to
1. The EGM of appointment doesn't have quorum, which only the manger presented in the meeting, no proxies, no any other owners.
2. The agreement was only signed by one owner which it does not comply the Strata Act Sec 238. Common Seal needs to be affixed with consent of two persons, owners or Secretary and another EC.
The agent didn't reply to our lawyer directly on the two points, all he claimed was the commercial lot owner owns two lots, so he signed twice. I mean, even I come from a non-English speaking country, but I did have a certain level of understanding English. “Two persons” == is a purl from, means 2, no matter how many lots the person owns, he still consider as one person, however he does have the no. of votes according to no. of lots he owns. The legislation has make it very clear, hasn't it?