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@JimmyT said:
There is no way you should be paying a special levy to make up for those who won’t pay. Instead you should be looking fro a strata debt collection service who will get all the money for you at NO COST to the owners corp. Google ‘strata debt collection’ to get a list of companies.If you need to raise the money to cover for a shortfall, contact Lannocks, who are sponsors of this site, to organise bridging finance.
And if your new Strata Manager can’t sort all this out for you, they’re not much use. It is illegal for the old SM to hang on to your documents and finances. If your SM won’t do it, call Fair Trading (13 32 20) and get them on the case.
Dear Jimmy,
We question the same to the strata agent, answer we received from the strata agent is that we have outstanding bills to pay, like the insurance renewal, the sewage fixing bill for the common property etc. Which this was all included in our levy budgeting in our last AGM back in July 2012. Now because one of the owners didn’t pay, we all have to make up the money to cover the bills, so we fall into a dilemma here.
Current strata agent had called a debt collector for this unclaimed levy, however the owner who didn’t pay levy actually didn’t admit our current managing agent, he claim he had paid our previous sacked agent, who’s a very doggy one introduced by himself. It took us almost 10,000 to dismiss the previous agent and have this current one take over. However the previous won’t let go and still keeps holding our funds.
Owners don’t want to spend more money on legal fees, as it’s just too expensive. I wonder if there’s any other alternative solution other than going through legal action again to ask the trust account money to be transferred to our current agent? I had this discussion in my previous topics about terminating a agent. Now it’s a brand new stage of how to get the previous agent completely out of our picture.