The light at the end of my strata tunnel is getting dimmer. I have just re read the information package from our new SM. it states that no action can be taken re breaches of by laws without the EC’s permission. So what happens when the members of the EC are breaching the by laws? I would have to jump through even more hoops and take external action re parking, common property etc, all breaches that members of our current EC have committed, to have the home I thought I would have when I bought into strata.
So I can get a lawyers letter, at cost to me and to the benefit all, a building consultant, at cost to me and to the benefit of all, or I can go to fair trading to have members of the EC found in breach, at cost to me again! With the hopeless EC who doesn’t get around to doing anything, the chances that they find anyone in breach is practically non existent. A letter to the EC regarding one members behavior to an owner in regards to being caught out breaching a by law was met with nothing. No meeting, no minutes, no notice. And it has been noticed that another EC member lets his “friends” breach by laws and uses common property for his own purposes when it suits.
So to have the strata home I thought I had, the strata home I would like to live in, I have to spent my own money and my own time and do it myself. Or sit and watch it all everything go to pot. Sounds just like having a house. All the protections and benefits of strata are useless if there is not a rock solid requirement for it to be followed and enforced. Whats the point of having an EC, or any by laws? There used to be a spotlight at the end of my strata tunnel, now its just a candle flickering in the growing breeze.