Being on the board is the best thing you can do. Try to avoid being the treassurer or the president and the you can get away with not doing too much work but still getting a say. I think some of the gross generalizations about condo boards are partially true. There is always one or two crazy ladies who want to rule an empire but the majority of people are the ones that are posting here. People who donate their time to protect their asset. And they take a lot of crap to do it. I put in 2 years as president of my borad and 1 more as a member and it was definately worth it.
I would argue that everyone has time to be a board member. A basic position only takes 3 hrs per month. And if you really dont have 3hrs per month to put in at least go to the AGM. As I always put in every letter I wrote to a whiney owner that if hey want to see change in the way the condo is being run to come to the agm because not attending the agm is an endorsement of the current governance.
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