Hi all
For those living in eastern suburbs of Melbourne, remember the earthquake of June 2012 which hit 5.5 on the Ricther scale? A day after the earthquake, the brick fence surrounding my IP collapsed. My IP is 1 out of 8 units.
Body Corporate (BC) got an insurance assessor out to inspect the collapse, but was told that the fence collapsed as a result of normal 'wear and tear' instead of the earthquake.
So BC wrote to all 8 owners providing a range of quotes to re-build the fence, ranging from $1k - $2k.
However, during voting process, one unit owners proposed that instead of a simple fence re-build, why not take the opportunity to make capital improvements to the fence. She proceeded to circulate a paper resolution and requested all votes to be posted to her (instead of BC). Because of this, we never reached a resolution on the original fence re-build (which BC originally circulated).
It has now been 1.5 years since we heard anything from BC or this other unit owner. Everytime I call BC, I'm told that its out of their hands and that they need the committee chairman to propose the resolution.
I find this strange, shouldn't every unit have the same right to propose a resolution? Why do I have to get the Chairman's to do it for me? To make things more complicated, I can't get hold of the Chairman's contact number due to privacy reasons. It just sounds like BC is trying to fob me off because they obviously allowed the other unit owner to run around circulating paper resolutions but I can't even propose a simple resolution to have the original fence re-build.
Any insight into the above would be much appreciated!
For those living in eastern suburbs of Melbourne, remember the earthquake of June 2012 which hit 5.5 on the Ricther scale? A day after the earthquake, the brick fence surrounding my IP collapsed. My IP is 1 out of 8 units.
Body Corporate (BC) got an insurance assessor out to inspect the collapse, but was told that the fence collapsed as a result of normal 'wear and tear' instead of the earthquake.
So BC wrote to all 8 owners providing a range of quotes to re-build the fence, ranging from $1k - $2k.
However, during voting process, one unit owners proposed that instead of a simple fence re-build, why not take the opportunity to make capital improvements to the fence. She proceeded to circulate a paper resolution and requested all votes to be posted to her (instead of BC). Because of this, we never reached a resolution on the original fence re-build (which BC originally circulated).
It has now been 1.5 years since we heard anything from BC or this other unit owner. Everytime I call BC, I'm told that its out of their hands and that they need the committee chairman to propose the resolution.
I find this strange, shouldn't every unit have the same right to propose a resolution? Why do I have to get the Chairman's to do it for me? To make things more complicated, I can't get hold of the Chairman's contact number due to privacy reasons. It just sounds like BC is trying to fob me off because they obviously allowed the other unit owner to run around circulating paper resolutions but I can't even propose a simple resolution to have the original fence re-build.
Any insight into the above would be much appreciated!