Good afternoon,
quick post to ask about condo management (or juristic office). I've been living in the same condo for the last 12 years and I'm an owner since 6 years.
Today, other owners (Thai) reach out to me because they are sick of the condo management and they are gathering all the complains they can find.
They know I had a few problems with the management in the past and they want me to join their crusade (probably because I was the only one asking questions management didn't want to hear at the last year co-owner meeting).
Anyway, I'm thrilled about this and for once it's started from Thai owners so I will not be the bad "farang" who complain about everything 🙂
However, before joining them I have a few questions about condo management and hopefully someone here will have a few answers :
- Since the new management took over the condo, new rules appears and if we don't respect those new rules we can get a fine (from 1000 to 5000 THB)
Is there a general law in Thailand about rules in condos ?
Can they add new rules without the approval of the majority of owner ?
Can they fine condo resident ? On which authority ? What can happened if an owner refuse to pay a fine ?
- Last year they raised the annual fee for owner (which we vote yes for) because they didn't have enough cash to pay the staff and condo upkeep), they also had a debt of 200K THB.
They complained about not having enough money to pay the staff but they still let them do overtime on weekends, during next co-owner meeting can we ask to see the cost of management (salaries, overtime paid etc.) ?
Can we request to have the total spending per month for maintenance, external contractor and other type of spending ?
Thanks for the help.