Can EC force me to take on repairs and maintenance?

I live in a 10  lot strata complex and am replying to Peter c and others.

I guess I am one of those difficult owners. The Exec Com and I have been waging a terrible battle for nearly a year. Actually longer than that. I have sent many emails, I confess. Most often without a response.

The problem: The upper floor of my villa ‘sagged”. Over a period of time the EC sent two engineers who said that the area was dangerous, no one was to go up there and that there was not sufficient support for the stairs.

The EC claimed the stairs were illegal. They sought to have a Special Privilege By-law lodged. Which I have not signed. That all owners were responsible for the maintenance and repairs for common property, namely, the stairs/upper floor.

I could well understand that the Owners Corp would not want to pay for the result of illegal work. But at the same time, the stairs were here when I purchased three years ago. 

Since I have lived here, the retaining wall at the rear started to come down. Since fixed by the owner strata above.

The driveway tree, 4m from my wall, invaded my sewerage many times over a two year period. It is now a very BIG tree. The EC voted to keep the tree.

Recently, I went to view my file at council. This time I took a Certified Building Surveyor. The stairs are legal.

What happens now? Who knows. Council will not give me the copies  of the plans and paperwork I requested for my villa. Under copyright laws. I have requested confirmation from council that the stairs were part of the approval consent. 

I am in my seventies and this was not my idea of a happy retirement. The strata is dysfunctional, there is no trust. 

I am waiting for a decision from the Adjudicator. The submissions took an enormous amount of time and work. 

I did not cause the retaining at the rear to deteriorate, nor the tree to invade my sewerage system, over and over again. I did not cause the floor to sag upstairs but I am hated with such vehemence by EC. 

The EC seem to be running their own little fiefdom. Nobody is allowed to question their decisions. They voted themselves in. They hold the majority vote.

Julie