Common property – giving it away for free

In a strata I am involved in, I discovered that one owner has been using the common storeroom to house his personal effects for  around 20 years at no rent. He is a friend of the committee members so they not only must have known about this but must have approved it, in secret. After all, how else did he get the key to the storeroom?

I asked the Strata Committee to provide me with:

A copy of the minutes where the OC allegedly approved renting or giving the storeroom to one owner;
Copy of the lease or leases between the OC and the owner since occupancy began; and
Specific details as to the length of the leases and the rent paid under earlier leases and rent payable under the current lease.

I have received no answers from the SC. What sections of the SSMA is the committee breaching? How serious are such breaches?

If I can show that the relevant owner in return for the free gift handed the Secretary his proxy – for OC meetings – over many, many years, does that make the behaviour of the SC even more serious?

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