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26/01/2017 at 1:57 pm
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If I had known, would I have every sold my former home and moved into strata…?
An update on an ‘Invalid’ 2016 AGM, reconvened two nights ago:-
In the last four years, the CTTT/NCAT has rejected all Request for Orders over our property, a strata building in Sydney. The first of the three request for Orders – the mandatory appointment of a Strata Managing Agent – was dismissed. The Respondents gave written assurances to the Adjudicator of the CTTT that a tender process for a new strata managing agent would resume if/when the Request for Orders were dismissed (SCS 13/15832). Those Strata Managing Agents initially contacted to submit tenders were never contacted again – confirmed by Mr ABC of Strata Managing Agency XYZ.
- Every single request/Motion ever put to review the performance of the current Strata Managers has been denied/defeated.
- Every single request/Motion ever put to send the contract to tender to gauge the market value of the contract has been denied/defeated. (Of course this is bar one; which, as predicted and expected, never went the distance.)
- A request/Motion to hold our 2016 Annual General Meeting after the introduction of new SSMA legislation, whereby the holding of proxies is limited, was denied/defeated.
The requests from almost all Owners present at the reconvened 2016 Invalid Annual General Meeting held this week to put the strata agent’s contract to tender was overridden by the Chairperson, a disgraced former MP. With proxies, (held because the meeting was under the SSMA 1996) saw carried the Motion to grant the Strata Managing Agents a further 3-year contract, bringing to 21-years the length of their engagement.
At no time during all these years has there ever been a review of the Strata Managers or their contract terms and conditions, despite all our pleas to do so. Owners were in turn told that they have the right to voice any concerns to members of the Strata Committee; to which Owners responded that they do not have the contact details of anyone on the Committee.
For the fourth General Meeting in a row, all Motions calling for compliance with various levels of legislation were defeated.
I am waiting to be told again that I haven’t done enough…whatever I’m doing I’m obviuosly doing incorrectly…I’m obviously incompetent, etc etc. I’ve given this my ALL. And perhaps those criticising are correct.
Strata Managing Agents publically congratulate Lawyers who have ‘saved their bacon’ at the NCAT, and in turn the Lawyers, who have received Lot Owner’s monies, write glowing public reviews of the Strata Managing Agents.
Our system, our legislation is meant to deliver transparency and fairness. In my opinion, and in our case, it is failing, miserably and completely.