@Beth99 said:
What bugs me is why are the other EC members so callous about this. Don’t we have any avenue of pursuing this money?
You have two issues here – an uninterested EC and a string of deadbeat strata managers.
The first is probably more worrying – what other issues have the allowed to drop into the too-hard basket?
The second could be as simple as a claim at your local court for a debt, a complaint to Fair Trading, or both.
The strata manager’s duty to hand over documents under the strata Act does not specify the transfer of funds, so taking them to NCAT may only result in establishing that they owe you money, rather than forcing it to be paid.
Personally, I would be raising a complaint with Fair Trading who will … wait for it … have a chat to them. But that might do the trick and get you round the simple arithmetic that pursuing $8k may cost more in time and fees than you get it return.
By the way, I would be more concerned that you are only missing $8k? Where’s your sinking fund?