shawtodds

Thanks Scotlandx appreciate your view of this . Re: the garage ,it started as a slow leak and eventually got up  to 1.5 litres per minute and the water was emanating from behind the garage wall on common property.The tenants didn’t care , the SMSF owner is totally hands off not interested and the other owner is 400km away unable to contribute even if they wanted to .The strata manager is a slow working dodderer but all we can get due to the small size of SP.Someone had to manage it and that was me otherwise it would never have gotten fixed and being the only owner/occupant of the building I had to look at a streaming torrent of water every day which really bugged me.  At one point I was riding around in the Sydney Water van with the technician looking for upline leaks! Who needs this ? They even checked the water usage accounts of nearby properties to see if there was any spikes in an effort to find where this water was coming from and I was dealing with incompetants at SW and talking to a different person everytime. It was a freaking nightmare that took 9 months to get sorted. LIke I said many hours of frustrating , totally unenjoyable work . I don’t want the payment for the moneys sake but only to be compensated in recognition of the unfairness of the situation. I will definately do one of the two options you suggest.Leaning at this stage to itemise my work over the next 12 months and present them with a bill.  It will be interesting to see their reaction as they can out vote me 2/1 but they may think twice if I refuse to do the same for the next year.