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Originally Posted by ranchlandsselling
Enough with blanket statements that "a lot of boards are like this". ..)
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Its true I havent owned a unit in all the buildings in all of Alberta but having ownership stake in 1, partial in another 1, and helped get things changed in a 3rd I can say all 3/3 I have seen were like that. So not all are bad, but not all are good - is that sufficient
Cleaning the floor etc is one thing, but when someone who is a plant nazzi wants all these things and is only able to accomplish this because of the timings of the meetings, the general apathy of the ownership, and the difficulty in getting things voted down then thats another thing entirely. If I lose fair and square so be it, plant a jungle in the common areas. But losing because the game is rigged, well then I start to try to re-rig the game in my favour.
For the first 2 years I wasnt able to get anything done. Living in a 60% asian building and being 0% asian didnt help. But then some idiot decided to turn their BBQ into a fireball at 2am and little old granny who never once said hi when I would needed help down the stairs so I carried her and everything since then changed. Its amazing what you can do when you have 50% support no questions asked (for the most part - other than showing up at New Years celebrations). Had I lived there longer I would have tried for more changes but I figured the 6 below were good enough for my 8.5 years there.
1 - Block the motion to fire our retired asian mtce guy (foolish I know but I didnt think think paying him $350 a month for 4 hours of on call service every day was unreasonable compared to what we were going to pay a 3rd party service for 2 days a week for 4 hours a day).
2 - get all meetings where budget changes are required to start no earlier than 530pm and only between Monday and Thursday.
3 - get the gym closed down and converted into a single use rental facility for parties etc who knew the condo could be making money from this space instead of spending money.
4 - remove 4 of 5 common use BBQs - sadly I wasnt able to get the 5th removed (5 years of fires because of the BBQs wernt enough to convince people who thought 1 day they could possibly might maybe use it).
5 - get all documentation emailed to owners instead of paper copies (paper copies still available for pickup at meetings)
6 - get the condo fees increased by 25$/month to prop up the reserve fund (its funny how this was easier to do than getting the gym shut down) Sorry guy who owns 5 units as rentals