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@eddie said:
I don’t know amount of time & effort spent but isn’t that what I pay a strata, building & property manager to do?
What you haven’t told us is:
1) How many Lots in your scheme?
2) What proportion of your annual budget does $6.6K represent?
3) How many past years does this honorarium cover? Just last year, or many years of tireless voluntary effort?
You seem a little unclear on the roles of various managers and the EC.
The Strata Manager (SM) is largely administrative. Calling meetings, minuting meetings, issuing levy notices, collecting levies, receiving bills, paying bills, answer correspondence, etc. Some (most?) of them never even visit your building.
Only larger schemes will have a Building Manager (BM), because smaller ones just can’t afford them. Their role is to fix things, either personally, or by arranging a tradesman, and to organise and supervise scheduled maintenance such as painting.
I don’t understand the inclusion of a Property Manager (PM). That term is usually reserved for the “Leasing Agent” of a landlord, and so deals only with the Lot.
But, there are some things that simply cannot be delegated to the SM or the BM, and they are:
1) The Owner’s taste. Suppose you want a boundary fence erected. If you delegate that “bare” requirement to the SM/BM, you will get their taste, or the tradesman’s taste. Someone from the EC/OC must specify the requirements. How much of the boundary? What material (barbed wire, brick/stone, brushwood, flat metal, tubular metal, height, colour, etc.)?
2) The “noticing” of things which need fixing, and communicating with the SM/BM about them.
3) If you don’t have a BM, the arranging of access so the work can be done, and the supervision of the work to ensure things go right and the OC gets “value for money”.
And that’s the sort of voluntary work your EC does for you.