Welcome to the blog of NSW strata investigative journalism
Primary audience on the website are SP52948 owners (current and previous), tenants, investors, and potential buyers in strata complex.
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.
Committee members and Uniqueco Property Services are obsessed with monitoring this website whilst declining to act or resolve the obvious issues of mismanagement and misuse of common funds, to list the primary persons: Ms. Genelle Godbee (she officially stated in NCAT case 2024-00454780 that Lot 158 must not be allowed to walk on common property outside Block A and must not be allowed to get access to strata files), Mr. Joe Spatola, and Mr. Steve Carbone (Uniqueco Property Services).
The rest of the audience is anyone who might be interested in problems with strata schemes in NSW...
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).
Examples of legal cases terminated contracts with strata and building managers in Australia
The owner of the website was exposed to multiple threats and intimidation tactics by BCS Strata Management (until 31 January 2017) and Waratah Strata Management (since 1 February 2017), which included unsuccessful defamation attempts, false statements to owners in notices of the meetings, prevention of access to SP52948 strata documents (and even Strata Rolls), preventing the owner from conducting duties of committee member whilst allowing unfinancial owners to do it, supported verbal threats, stalking, and intimidation of the owners, and refusal to attend free mediations at NSW Fair Trading, whilst providing false statements to CTTT and NCAT through the same Solicitor.
There is no website which covers more detailed events related to strata issues with direct evidence than this one in Australia (trust through verification).
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, CTTT (now NCAT), District Court, Supreme Court, and Police.
Justice McCallum publicly stated:
Extensive media reporting of allegations of criminal conduct is not a mischief in itself. On the contrary, it is appropriate to recognise that the media play an important role in drawing attention to allegations of criminal or other misconduct and any shortcomings in the treatment of such allegations.
Breaches of SP52948 by-laws are persisent, repetitive, and predictable, causing nuisance to others and creating potential safety risks. That is even more obvious when the fact that By-Laws are manipulated and hidden from occupants. As of late April 2026, on the new Waratah Strata Management web portal only two references to By-Laws are listed:
Lot 79 fraudulent major renovations without approvals at any legally-convented meeting or disclosed registration.
Waratah Strata Management persistently manipulated SP52948 By-Laws. Few of many examples:
Waratah Strata Management created massive insurance risks due to unregistered and unapproved major renovations:
Of all those renovations, Lot 79 was the most outstanding example of fraud. Lot 79 (major renovations started without owners corporation meeting approval, including noise on 3 November 2024; major renovations approved at SP52948 Annual General Meeting dated 28 November 2024, as organised by Waratah Strata Management and directly orchestrated by Bannermans Lawyers, did not satisfy requirements of Strata Schemes Management Act 2015 (SSMA); not registered in Consolidated By-Laws, witholding information from and misleading the Registrar General of the NSW Land Registry Services).
Lot 79 major renovations started without owners corporation meeting approval on 3 November 2024 and continued unil around 3 June 2025:
SP52948-AGM-2024-Motion-23-Lot-79-major-renovations-full-details-28Nov2024
NCAT-2024-00454780-001-Bannermans-Lawyers-conflict-of-interest-and-disclosure-public
SP52948-Lot-158-warning-to-Bannermans-Lawyers-about-NCAT-case-2024-00454780-20Feb2025
Obsolete document which should not be referenced on Waratah Strata website as current:
SP52948-Consolidated-By-Laws-29Mar2019
This was the allegedly current version of By-Laws as published on Waratah Strata Management old website up to April 2026:
