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Further troubles with our developer who still owns 10 of the 14 units in our NSW Apartment block. Now that 4 apartments have been sold he is in the process of transferring one of his currently owned Apartment to his wife so that they will be able to have 4 votes ( 1/3 of his own + 1 for her) and will then just need one of the new owners to vote with him to have a majority vote. He has advised us that at the AGM which he intends to hold before Christmas he will ensure that a vote is taken to ratify his decision to backdate the water bills so that from the time the first person bought into this Strata Scheme, water bills were to be divided equally amongst the number of owners in the Scheme. This means our neighbour would be liable for half the water account for the quarter she moved in ( shared with him), and we and she would be liable for one third each of the next 5 quarterly bills from from the time we moved in ( shared with him).
He has now changed the contracts of sale for the two newest owners ( they are different to the first two contracts of sale) so that new owners buying in will pay for 270kl per year.
My questions are these:
1. Can the AGM or any meeting for that matter, vote to backdate costs by a different division than the lot entitlements of owners?
2. Can some owners be charged a fee based on one system and others be charged by a different system?
3. Are we correct in stating that we pay our $2400 contribution in quarterly instalments so should not be being billed for other costs of the Strata Scheme.