The "SCO" Toolbox" provides tool's of knowledge for strata owners and strata council with suggestions on how to cope with strata management companies who are operating on a different "Agenda" than what your Strata Corporation has legal responsibilities to keep.

Strata Managers aka "Agent" are not salaried "employees", most are "contractors" who are paid by commission based on the number of doors they manage, the average strata manager commission ranges between 35 - 40% of the management fee. It is not uncommon for strata managers and or Strata Management Company’s to receive commissions on renovation loans they were asked to provide to a Strata Corporation. In a recent report to stratawatch the Strata Agent received $15,000.00 for arranging a loan to repair roofs.

Strata Owners and Councils should be aware, those recent amendments to the Strata Property Act have now come into law. This is welcome news for strata owners who had issues in the past they could not settle, due to the high costs of making claims through the Supreme Court of BC.

Please visit the strataadvocate.ca for updates to "Bill 8" of the Strata Property Act.

Suggested Reading:

One of our first suggestions for reading is book called "Bullies Tyrants & Impossible People" by Ronald M. Shapiro & Mark A. Jankowski ISBN 1-4000-5011-1.

"Mastering the principles and doing the exercies in the Ron Shapiro
and Mark Jankowski's new book will help you develop the skills
needed to navigate through minefields of difficult people and unfair
circumstances, anxiety-provoking affairs in which the outcome really
matters. My prescription for my friends who must voyage
through these challenging straits is to read this book!

It could be the best investment you make this year" J. Raymond DePaulo
Jr., M.D., chairman Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.