@Urban Spaceman said:
Of course, the CTTT’s decisions were absolutely sensible, fair and just in this case because they simply always are, aren’t they …
Your sarcasm is a bit misplaced. You’ve been reading this website and contributing to it long enough to know that blind faith in the CTTT isn’t my view and never has been. I’m guessing you’re frustrated at valid complaints that went nowhere. It happens – it’s wrong but it’s not everyone’s experience.
I’m also guessing – although I shouldn’t – that you haven’t been subjected to the withering onslaught of well-funded lawyers who have access to unlimited resources and whose petulant paymasters want you to suffer just because they didn’t get their way and you, doing the right thing, were the cause of that.
Sleeplessness nights, wondering if you’re going to lose your home, asking yourself if it would be easier to turn up if court and lie, saying you did do all the terrible things you’ve been accused of, just so they call off the dogs and you can get what’s left of your life back. That’s the flip side of this coin.
The CTTT isn’t always wrong (although they often are) and the campaigning owner isn’t always right, just because they won’t give up. We see plenty of tales of owners here in this forum who’ve grabbed the wrong end of the stick and won’t let go. Winning soon becomes more important than being right and if they have the time and money to make others’ lives a misery, then they will do so.
By the way, “the Executive Committee members have all done that new course which ensures they know the NSW Strata Titles Act back-to-front” is a good thing, right? But, yes, perhaps too many EC members are on their committee purely to protect their own interests – although that may be nothing more sinister than making sure the building is properly maintained and run in accordance with the laws and by-laws.
And some are do-nothing talking shops who resent any attempts from the outside to challenge their authority. But that’s life – people are different but what most of us want, really, is just a quiet life.