My condo has many maintenance workers but the common areas are sh**! Nothing ever gets repaired.
When pressing the condo about why the workers aren’t working in the common areas, the committee says bc they get calls every day to fix things in peoples room. And apparently they are fixing things for free. I never thought about this because I never called for maintenance.
Now the condo is increasing the CAM fee because they need more maintenance and are specifically citing work in private units. I can’t even believe the put it in writing
This seems like a violation of the condominium act as it specifically states that CAM fees are to be used to maintenance of common areas, staff salaries, regular expenses etc. Nothing about fixing stuff in ppls rooms for free. So my fees are subsidizing ppls rooms.
And to top it off, we have millions in the sinking fund, yet they are funneling some of the cam fees into the sinking fund without co-owner approval. So basically are cam fees are being squandered on free room maintence and locked into the sinking fund.
To top it off, they refuse to use the sinking fund when there are major repairs and then blow whatever CAM fee is accumulated on major emergency maintenance.
Am I right to cite this as multiple violations of the Condominium Act? I think the CAM fees should be using for common area maintence, the sinking fund should be used when there’s a major repair, and no free maintenance should be done in peoples rooms. Also the commitee should be getting approval from co-owners b4 dumping money into sinking fund, which they don’t. I mean unless I’m reading the condo act wrong ..
Im tempted to complain about this to the land department bc we never have money or workers for repairs in common areas and it’s driving me insane. Feels like total abuse and mismanagement