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Hi JimmyT
Although correspondence from the lawyer/EC Secretary isn’t on his firm’s letterhead, each piece of correspondence from him/them has a ‘legal’ reference number quoted on it. Correspondence comes: 1) via the firm/Lawyer’s business email, 2) a follow-up hard copy in the firm’s envelopes – one envelope for every topic arrives…so I could get a total of six pieces of correspondence from them in two days. Perhaps this is meant to intimidate? Who knows.
Instructions are that the correspondence go to him/them directly, and not via any other party eg, the Strata Manager’s Office. I now ask that a copy of my correspondence be given to the SMA so it can be placed on the Strata’s files. Don’t know if this happens.
I did fax a request for motions for an EGM – sent via email a few weeks ago to the EC Secretary – to the SMA’s Office yesterday. A ‘little birdie’ warned me that Motions must be received either by fax/mail/hand delivered – email won’t suffice.
The ‘confidential’ agreement between the Lawyer/his firm/EC Secretary and the other EC Members quotes a fee for their ‘Legal advice’ to the OC of up to $1,100+/hour.
Search of strata records – I asked specifically to see a line-by-line account of what OC monies had been spent on. I also asked specifically to see all ‘Legal’ correspondence: Strata Manager denied there was any further Legal correspondence, even though I have seen in the EC Minutes, legal correspondence to certain Lot Owners…this wasn’t produced; plus mountains of account folders were presented as I was ready to walk out their office, after asking for more than an hour. I was told to simply have a search through them…
Motion that OC Lot Owners be able to access on-line details of expenditure was voted down unanimously at the last AGM.
Happy Saturday all