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Number of SP52948 owners, tenants, and investors expressed gratitude towards this website as that was the only way to gain access to lot of critical information, which is not available in minutes and notices of meetings, or on Waratah Strata website.
The rest of the audience is anyone who might be interested in problems with strata schemes in NSW...
This website does not have any desire or intent to add own comments and therefore it is up to anybody to make up their own conclusions based on evidence and statements by others who did it in public forums, in courts, or elsewhere. All files on this website were provided to Fair Trading NSW, Office of legal Services Commissioner, NCAT, Supreme Court, and Police. The same files were repeatedly sent to Solicitor Adrian Mueller, committee members and strata managers - silence is their response.
Public is voicing strong concerns about problems with Tribunals. Issues with strata complexes and dubious quality of services provided by those who should enforce laws are common and frequent - examples: NSW-Civil-Tribunal-failing-to-deliver-services
Democracy should be the leading avenue for managing strata complexes. But, democracy requires high level of sense and ethics, and right for all owners to have full access to strata files in order to make informed decisions. And when that does not happen, how to proceed? One way is to educate public and rise awareness that license to be a strata manager is one of the easiest in any industry: Strata Community Australia (SCA) are offering a three-day course on qualifying to be a strata manager with no prior educational requirements (apparently educational requirements are fulfilled by completing the course).
Waratah Strata Management "won" contract with SP52948 four times without any tenders, of which three previous contracts had been signed by unfinancial owners (Mr. Moses Levitt and Mr. Stan Pogorelsky) who were allowed to vote and be on the committee in full non-compliance with strata laws and regulations.
Waratah Strata Management was fully aware of unpaid levies for gas heating, as listed in Minutes of committee meeting on 20 July 2017, and then failed to collect them for further two and half years and present the Motion to "forgive" unpaid levies at general meeting on 17 October 2019:
Extract from submission in Statutory Declaration to NCAT 20/33352 which Waratah Strata Management did not allow owners to see and screenshots of Minutes of Annual general meeting on 17 October 2019 with highlighted owners who did not pay prescribed levies for gas heating (including 10% simple interest for overdue levies before the meeting):
In spite of significant shortage in Admin Fund, Motion 14 allegedly approved owners to not pay overdue levies for gas heating: