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.
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.
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.
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Uniqueco Property Services Director Steve Carbone parking his van and car in private garages, whilst leaving empty reserved space in front of tennis courts, and also parking ride-on-mower in private garages.
Mr. Steve Carbone blatantly ignored his own contract clauses for behaviour in the complex, did not provide any valid or justifed reason why he uses around 12 different garages for parking his private vehicles (documented with full video and photo evidence), proof of approval for such behaviour at any legally-convened meeting, evidence of him accepting liability for any accident whilst driving or parking inside the complex, evidence that he indemnified owners corporation for any damages whilst driving or parking inside the complex, and his insurance covering owners corporation for any fire caused by EV vehicle:
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How complex the car manoeuvring whilst reverse-exiting the private garage is best displayed through videos (garage of Lot 129, which is straight behind the reversing car was recently witnessed being repaired whilst the owner was absent and not using it since November 2025):
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Uniqueco Property Services Director Steve Carbone continues to park his EV scooter inside the new storage area which was built without registered Special By-Law for change to common property (and evidence that such By-Law was registered afterwards was never presented to any owner and NCAT).
At non-compliant committee meeting on 2 April 2024, Solicitor Adrian Mueller was allegedly engaged to draft additional by-law for storage of electric bikes, scooters and other electric lithium battery powered mobility equipment. Such Motion was not presented at AGM on 28 November 2024 and Waratah Strata Management refused to comment about costs paid to the Solicitor. The committee meeting on 2 April 2024 failed to meet the quorum (7 of 9 strata committee members were allegedly financial for the purposes of this meeting but out of 4 who voted at the meeting, one was, in reality, unfinancial to vote and illegal to be a committee member due to self-nomination and unpaid gas heating levies - Mr. Stan Pogorelsky, Lot 181) and the other due to self-nomination at previous general meetings (Mr. Ramesh Desai, Lot 159). Agenda was created on 26 March 2024 and scheduled for 2 April 2024. Excluding date of creation, meeting date, public holidays, and the weekend, only two days were allowed for delivery of notice to all owners. As per Strata Roll dated 31 January 2017, more than 32% of owners had requested postal delivery of notices – that figure is hidden from owners by Waratah Strata Management in subsequent years. No owner received full information about financial status, where Admin Fund had deficit (negative balance) of -$190,762.04 one day before the agenda was sent to owners. Even worse, no owner received full information about financial status, where Admin Fund had deficit (negative balance) of -$200,148.73 on the day of the alleged meeting. Agenda was not detailed, especially the details of Solicitor Adrian Mueller's costs in Standard Costs Agreement. Agenda did not contain details of time and place of the meeting, denying owners their right to attend in person, if they wishes so, and with 25% of voting rights to make decision any way they wanted without committee members. None of six notice boards published agenda of the alleged meeting at any time before the meeting (photo evidence was collected). None of six notice boards published agenda of the alleged meeting at any time after the meeting (photo evidence was collected). Waratah Strata Management website on two main pages did not list any meeting for this date (photo and video evidence was collected).
Mr. Carbone is regularly witnessed riding the EV scooter without owners corporation approval, without using a protective helmet, and failed to provide proofs of who approved a charger for his scooter. As his EV scooter is hidden in private location (inside the storage area in basement of Block D), there is a question of liability allocation, insurance coverage, safety standards, storage of cables or faulty installations (can create public liability risks, such as trip hazards or electrical fires).
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Unsafe parking in basement by ex-committee member Mr. Stan Pogorelsky without action by Uniqueco Property Services Director Steve Carbone on 9 February 2026:
