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Well everyone, the plot thickens at our Strata complex in a small coastal area. The latest is that the developer has now advised everyone that I don’t know what I am talking about by advising him ( as per the Ministers Office statement) that the Act prevents him from charging for unmetered water on top of our levy. He is already charging the two newest owners 1/5 of the water account. The most recent event is that one of the newest owners ( 4 out of 14 apartments have now been sold) got stuck in the lift and had to ring her daughter to come and get her out. When she emailed the developer to report this he then emailed all owners and said that the two earliest owners ( us and our upstairs neighbour) had prevented him from having the lift serviced as when he wanted to put the annual levy up 20% we would not agree. He has now banned use of the lift and does not have any lights on in the common areas so we have all had to run out and buy torches so we can use the ( very dark) stairs at night. He is still insisting that he will have the AGM ratify his decision to charge the two earliest owners 1/3 of the water account so it will be back dated.
Now he says he will be implementing a special levy so he can have the lift fixed. He has not ever identified a revenue budget and we do not have a budget at all except a draft that he sent us which said we had to pay over $3000 pa levy as well as water, lift maintenance, electricity , insurance and any other costs not included in budget ( he had no idea what they were). No estimate of these expenses and no revenue ( levies) as he is not charging himself for his 10 units even though they are 73% of lot entitlements.
We may now go to mediation and failing that will need seek the appointment of a Strata Manager as whatever we do he just over rides us and tells the other owners that we do not know anything.