Management Committee
Posted: 02 Jul 2024 08:40
Hi Nigel,
We are a small complex of 8 apartments & have been managing it ourselves for a few years, with 4 of us on the committee. We have not been a registered committee & our bank account has been a personal account with 2 of us as signatories. We have been totally transparent & detailed accounts have been sent out via email at least every 2 months, if not monthly.
I know that we may not have been a legal committee but the BOC seemed to accept us as a committee when they repossessed an apartment & wanted signatures of the committee members to enable them to continue with the communal payments.
Recently, a non committee member has caused a lot of friction, to the extent that 2 of us have resigned from the committee. In hindsight, we allowed this to happen and should have dealt with it differently, hence not giving her the power.
Due to the 2 of us leaving, the committee has fallen apart. This person has tried to set up another committee but to no avail. Now she is saying that we have never been a legal committee, the bank account should not be a personal account etc etc.
For the sake of the complex, we have decided to keep things going, without a committee as such until we take on a Management Company who will also hopefully help with the setting up of a legal committee.
In the meantime, until the complex is managed in her words, legally, the apt owner mentioned above is withholding future communal fees plus is demanding the repayment of her contribution towards painting the complex, which we planned to do in September. If we do not refund her she will go to the police. We will repay her to avoid any more bad feeling, but is she within her rights?
Thanks
Maria
We are a small complex of 8 apartments & have been managing it ourselves for a few years, with 4 of us on the committee. We have not been a registered committee & our bank account has been a personal account with 2 of us as signatories. We have been totally transparent & detailed accounts have been sent out via email at least every 2 months, if not monthly.
I know that we may not have been a legal committee but the BOC seemed to accept us as a committee when they repossessed an apartment & wanted signatures of the committee members to enable them to continue with the communal payments.
Recently, a non committee member has caused a lot of friction, to the extent that 2 of us have resigned from the committee. In hindsight, we allowed this to happen and should have dealt with it differently, hence not giving her the power.
Due to the 2 of us leaving, the committee has fallen apart. This person has tried to set up another committee but to no avail. Now she is saying that we have never been a legal committee, the bank account should not be a personal account etc etc.
For the sake of the complex, we have decided to keep things going, without a committee as such until we take on a Management Company who will also hopefully help with the setting up of a legal committee.
In the meantime, until the complex is managed in her words, legally, the apt owner mentioned above is withholding future communal fees plus is demanding the repayment of her contribution towards painting the complex, which we planned to do in September. If we do not refund her she will go to the police. We will repay her to avoid any more bad feeling, but is she within her rights?
Thanks
Maria
