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Originally Posted by meme405
That's whats so frustrating about this for me. In my building we are literally talking about 90% of the owners are over 50 years of age. And 75% of them are retired and probably well past 70 y/o.
So they have all the time in the world to sit around the building common areas and play scrabble and bullshit with each other, whereas I someone who has a fucking life and a job, have no interest in trying to pander to them.
So the people on strata have all the time in the world to brainwash these old fogies, and I who has way more reasonable ideas about how to make our building better and save money so our maintenance fees don't spiral out of control, am just made out to look like a fool while I am not present at their spades games at 11am on a tuesday.
I have maybe two other owners on a side with me, cause they are sick of having a 15-20k special assesment every year, because these old people like to renovate our fucking courtyard all the time, or repaint the building, or whatever other ridiculous project they can come up with.
The worst part about our special assessments is the people on council which make the decisions relating to which companies to hire or the work that needs to be performed have literally no concept of construction. Whereas I do this for a living every fucking day, you think when I say something they might listen, but they literally stare at you with a stupid look and proceed to do whatever retarded bullshit they were going to do before.
I'm getting pissed just thinking about this. which is why I eventually let it go, cause it's actually not worth the headache.
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we were in a similar situation before. 1st 20min of an AGM they fight/bicker about politics of 1 group supporting a guy that was kicked off the board vs another group. not fun watching old people yell at each other with zero logic
sad thing was that they had 1 board member that was an architect (he actually knew stuff vs everyone else that didn't know ANYTHING about construction) and his voice gets lost/ignored during all the arguing. we got out as it was a gong show and i knew the people, strata, and building manager didn't have a clue.
when you need repairs/construction done, and you have access to people in the field of construction giving free sincere advice and you ignore them, alarm bells are sounding in my head. ever thought of selling/moving? that's too stressful for me man.