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+1 to tracking the person down as well as obtaining professional debt recovery advice.
I’d also look at the strata legislation for your state & make sure the OC is fulfilling its obligations to all owners. In NSW:
“The owners corporation must prepare and keep a strata roll. The roll must be kept by mechanical, electronic or other means. There must be recorded for each lot:
* the owner’s name
* or the owner’s agent and the agent’s Australian address for service of notices.”
&
“After the levies are set, the Treasurer must write to the owners and tell them the amount to pay and the date to pay. This notice only has to be given once.”
&
“An unpaid levy gains interest at the rate of 10% simple interest a year if not paid within one month after it is due. The owners corporation cannot increase or decrease the interest but it can make a special resolution to charge no interest. Unpaid levies, including interest, can be recovered by the owners corporation as a debt in court.”
We did have problems with outstanding debts, our OC now has a process in place where we have a graduated response to overdue levies which ends in debt recovery with all costs directed to the debtor. Since we’ve brought in that process we’ve had very few problems with outstanding levies.
& well done, webman for stepping up to the plate for your OC.