Not overseeing a sector handling millions is illogical

Not overseeing a sector handling millions is illogical
Apartment living is still relatively new to New Zealanders. Source: NZH Sylvie Whinray
Maria Slade
The body corporate chair at an Auckland city fringe apartment building sends me long, meandering emails detailing a litany of vexation at the complex.She has lived and breathed its problems for years, expending hours of her own time to sort them out.The trouble has ranged from the relatively minor, such as the dumping of a tenant’s work tools stored in a carpark – although this resulted in the Tenancy Tribunal ordering the body corporate to pay the tenant $3300 – through to the mysterious situation where $20,000 in Watercare c...

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