Investigative Journalism and Learning Hub - Waratah Strata Management Received Repeated Reminder About Missing Special By-Law 4 on Web Portal on 30 April 2017

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From: SP52948 owner
To: Robert Crosbie Waratah Strata Management
Subject: RE: REMINDER: SP52948 Still Missing Special By-Law 4 on Waratah Strata Management web portal on 30Apr2017
Date: 4/5/17, 4:43 pm

We advise the following correspondence will be tabled and discussed at the next available committee meeting. We will provide a further response once instructions have been obtained from the committee at that meeting.

Regards,

Robert Crosbie

Waratah Strata Management

P.O. Box 125, Eastwood NSW 2122

-----Original Message-----

From: SP52948 owner

Sent: Sunday, 30 April 2017 10:32 AM

To: Robert Crosbie

Subject: REMINDER: SP52948 Still Missing Special By-Law 4 on Waratah Strata Management web portal on 30Apr2017

Short reminder:

Your note in the minutes of the EC meeting held on 20 April 2017 in regards to updated By-Laws of SP52948 is misleading and deliberately misconstrued. It affects all owners who allegedly have access to strata documents and also potential investors who need to have correct information before purchase.

I am not going to allow ANYONE to use my name or be part of the efforts for misleading or dishonest representation of the complex. In addition, consumers' laws are very clear:

https://www.accc.gov.au/consumers/misleading-claims-advertising/false-or-misleading-claims

Even if there were no laws in this regards, there is still something called human decency and respect for others (taught in schools, all religions, and so on).

Your website is one of the worst in regards to amount of information given to owners.

It does not include any scans of invoices, receipts, quotes, tenders, EC members' correspondence, owners' inquiries and complaints, monthly or at least six-monthly financial reports, income and expenditure reports, legal costs disclosures, and much more. And that is not OK for a complex that collects million dollars a year in levies alone!

In spite of THREE reminders to EC members and you, your web site still does not include Special By-Law 4 in regards to Lot 3 (EC Secretary, Mrs. Lorna Zelenzuk). The question is who is being protected and why?

Ordinary user can make up their mind about it.

Here are proofs:

a) Status of documents for SP52948 on 30 March 2017:

http://www.nswstratasleuth.info/Waratah-Strata-Management/SP52948-Waratah-Strata-Management-Website-screenshot-still-not-included-Special-By-Law-4-for-Lot-3-on-30Mar2017.webp

b) Status of documents for SP529458 on 3 April 2017:

http://www.nswstratasleuth.info/Waratah-Strata-Management/SP52948-Waratah-Strata-Management-Website-screenshot-still-not-included-Special-By-Law-4-for-Lot-3-on-3Apr2017.webp

c) Status of documents for SP529458 on 30 April 2017:

http://www.nswstratasleuth.info/Waratah-Strata-Management/SP52948-Waratah-Strata-Management-Website-screenshot-still-not-included-Special-By-Law-4-for-Lot-3-on-30Apr2017.webp

It can easily be seen that latest updates to By-Laws were on 6 March 2017.

Apart from giving me a new copy that included Special By-Law 4, and putting them on notice boards in the complex, the By-Laws on your web site are still wrong. Plain and simple.

Since EC members failed to enforce this, I kindly ask that you make the website update immediately.