Training for some or all owners’ representatives should be mandatory in some form. Otherwise you get folks without a clue affecting your enjoyment and asset.
Tally up the total value of apartments in your complex and consider if you want any old, untrained volunteer to make decisions on your collective behalf.
Or, they can make decisions and give approvals that is actually against the Act, and if so, it’s you as owners who pay for any rectifications.
Or, you get a few old dears at the helm who mix a bit of fact with some self serving fiction that hoodwinks or intimidates newbies.
Or, you get folks onboard without the time in their schedule to give the job the time and respect it deserves.
Or, you get folks who don’t know their legal or moral obligations to the job.
I’ve heard a whisper that Queensland might be falling towards having professional managers oversee all the committee decision making and job executions. I can certainly see the value in that for quality, and taking the stress out of being on a committee in the first place.