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I own a strata lot in WA and am the elected secretary and acting treasurer. I have also been acting as a volunteer strata manager.

Our strata scheme has six lots with five owners/residents. Everyone has an email addresses. The strata uses an email address for all notifications. What is the legality of notifications and replies when communicating to owners via their email addresses? Can I arrange the AGM using email communication?

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There are a lot of repairs and maintenance being undertaken in our apartment block. This includes planned and unplanned work including urgent repairs to fix water leaks.

A number of owners currently have their units for sale. The Secretary has been requested not to mention details of the repairs in official minutes of meetings and / or Vote Outside a Committee meeting (VOC or VOCM) decisions. It is suggested that mentioning these issues will make units difficult to sell. A number of owners want only generic references to maintenance mentioned in minutes.

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Could you please provide the correct channel of raising matters when it comes to issues pertaining to our strata complex? Should the lot owner first contact the Strata Manager or is the Strata Committee the first port of call? We don’t have a building manager.

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As an owner in a strata scheme, l emailed the owners corporation about six months ago. They denied receiving the email. I resent the email via our strata manager about a month ago. The strata manager confirmed they received the email and had forwarded it to the committee. After no response, I sent a follow-up email, but they still haven't replied. Can the committee ignore my emails? What options do owners have, and is the committee required to respond?

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Our complex has a large numbers of rented lots, and tenancies change regularly. We have a number of bicycles racks, and the executive committee believe some of the bikes are abandoned, left by vacated residents. What is the Queensland law for unclaimed property? Can the committee tag them for removal if they have not been claimed by a certain date? If not claimed, do we take the bikes to the Police Station?

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As secretary of our 72 lot strata plan, I wish to streamline communications between the owners corporation (OC) and the lot owners. I want to favour the electronic delivery of notices and reports over snail mail.

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I'm an owner in a small 12 unit block of strata managed apartments in Sydney. Five owners are on the committee.

The strata committee operates a closed WhatsApp group. Discussions and decisions are not transparent, minuted, or correctly shared with owners.

Owner access is refused, as the group is for 'committee members only'. Since there are so few owners, it would make sense for everyone to join in.

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I am a lot owner and member of our OC Committee. Together with a few other lot owners/OC Committee members, we find ourselves in the minority (by votes) due to the Chair going continually rogue, regularly bypassing consultation with the whole OC Committee for works undertaken and generally being dictatorial and unpleasant when questioned about unilateral decisions taken by him.

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Our committee seems to live by its own rules. I took them to VCAT about ten years ago for not making repairs and not responding to complaints about their and the manager's lack of response. They didn't respond to the VCAT application.