@Erte said:
I’m interested in this general topic too. My building is small (six owners, four of whom are also residents) and we have a strata manager.I’m a total newbie to all this. But it does seem to me that a strata manager (who might never see the building from one month to the next) would not be well placed to know what needed to be done and so perhaps must be alerted by owners who are.
It sounds like yours is one of the many schemes where the owners have delegated all the strata committee functions to the strata manager. This should not mean, however, that the committee ceases to function.
The best way to approach this may be to arrange an informal meeting to discuss what the majority of owners want to do in the future and to canvass the idea of undertaking the smaller tasks (like re-stringing the Hills Hoist) yourselves.
This way, you can keep things up to scratch just by the occasional chat over a cup of tea, or an informal ring-around, and then ask the strata manager (or not) to do what needs to be done.
This is not what’s laid out in strata law, but it’s simple, effective and efficient and only becomes a problem when someone objects – and that’s when you start having formal meetings to ratify your majority decisions.
Obviously, there are limits to what you can decide informally but most things in the day-to-day running of a scheme would be covered.