19 May 2012 00:26:Nothing to do with the title of the thread but my view of administrators is that a good one will provide a useful service...I don't want to confront neighbours who break rules or don't pay so having a prefessional to do all this sort of stuff is, in my experience, essential.
The question for me is: Should you pay your President? I am VP and yes it costs me a lot of time and a bit in petrol and phone calls but I am more concerened about about getting someone good to be President when the current one gets fed up. We have just over 200 apartments, our President is Spanish and fluent in English so keeps the community together. She works hard, taking annual leave to attend court hearings for the community and spends Saturdays buying materials for maintenance so that the community gets the trade discount rather than the maintenance company.
She doesn't want to be paid but I think it might make sense to pay a retainer in the future as I don't see a queue of neighbours wanting the job. As Justin says a paid President has an obligation to deliver results whereas a volunteer can do as he likes
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