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Thanks very much everyone for the good suggestions for investigation of leak and other insights.
I guess my main gripe/disgruntlement is the passivity of the strata managers and unquestioningly/mindlessly paying bills – but then as has been pointed out managing a block of six isn’t considered lucrative enough enough for them to do anything than just act as a direct debit system until the accounts are drained (the block has other problems too!).
That said even though we are a small strata I still would have thought part of the agreement with us and their financial duty of care (for want of a better term) is for some sort of oversight and ‘management’ of the finances. Personally I like to review and scrutinise each bill ahead of paying rather than trusting auto/direct debit.
And I get it would be unfeasible to check every single account statement/bill, that said that is the core of a lot of their work – arranging trades, quotes, paying utilities, etc.
All I know is that they’re excellent at extracting the fees and the levies every quarter and wanting to increase their charges by more than CPI each year! I’ll go along to the EGM and raise my concern that the bill was allowed to get this high and query how we can make sure this doesn’t happen in future.
Thank you all again v much – great advice on the forum, appreciate the input.