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This almost an exact mirroring of my situation.
When I bought in Strata for the first time (Perth, WA) I met the then-chairman of the EC. She was an narcissistic horror….I have described the situation in another threat re harassment of EC members by owners.
We got her off the committee about 4 months after I joined and was voted into the Chair. It was a practical necessity: by then her behaviour was so sociopathic that the EC actually refused to be in the same room as she, and we couldn’t hold a meeting. There was drunken misbehaviour, and now she has settled into repeated legal proceedings.
My problem is that she is targeting me personally as the author of her removal from power (true) and her personal misery (ridiculous) and so the legal actions tend towards fantasised restraining orders rather than threats of the SAT, etc. She is vexatious and frivolous, but it takes a lot more extreme expenditure of money for the courts to declare them to be vexatious.
We don’t take much notice anymore because we operate very cleanly and within the law, our levies have remained static for five years whilst we have completed a hell of a lot of works in the grounds, and we are on track for completing painting of all buildings and structures in the large complex without either a special levy or a hike in rates. these things tend to happen when we correspond to request she desist from breaches of the by-laws, which is frequent. I cant tell you how many times shes let my tyres down (cant prove it, she was observed but by someone too frightened of her to witness on paper).
but you are not alone. theres only one thing worse than a bully EC member, and that’s a bully ex-EC member. she spend her considerable spare time thinking of ways to halt projects and fritter away the common funds. thankfully she is a coward when not behind her keyboard, so confrontations have been very far between.