20 Aug 2011 12:40 PM:

Hi Faro,

We are paying around 6,000 euros per year, its not the money, we are concerned about but as you say the shoddy service but as I said before, I cannot find any President in the area who is happy with their Administrators,

We will see what happens between now and the AGM and then the owners will decide how they wish to proceed.

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20 Aug 2011 10:20 AM:

Hi Faro,

Although some of the owners say we should be paid for the work we do in the community, I do not accept this and feel it should be on a voluntary basis only. As you said in your earlier post, there will be a small band of owners who will do all of the work and the others will sit on the sidelines but generally all of the owners here pull together and are very supportive of the committee.

With regard to the extra work, I think we do most of it at the moment as we have done for several years.

We, not the administrator, deal directly with most suppliers, including pool and gardens etc. Every year we have to re write both the budget  for the following year and financial reports for the current year as they are usually either wrong or misleading. As President I have only spoken to the administrators about three times in the past year and twice it was to complain about their lack of service in the very few things they do.

It is the committee who chase the debtors, it is the committee who sends out emails about untidy gardens

As far as I can see all they do which we do not do at the moment is deal with the bank but as virtually every owner is either current business professional or retired, I cannot see that there should be any real issue with that.

It will be down to the owners whether we change but I am pleased to see that others have great success in running their own affairs.

 

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19 Aug 2011 8:12 PM:

Hi Faro,

I totally understand what you are saying and we have considered the point about virtually being the administrator on the urb where we live but being President on the urb where you live can be the same. Our issue is that we have very little contact with our administrators anyway. Owners come direct to the committee and any moans and groans come our way now. The administrators are useless at chasing the small debts we have, we do that in house with great success, they only thing they really do is collect the fees and they do that badly, quite often not on time.

Whatever happens it will be down to the owners to decide not the committee and we have three months before our AGM, so this gives us time to gather more info, good and bad.

 

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19 Aug 2011 8:51 AM:

Hi Justin,

Thanks for your reply, We have had several issues with the administrator over the years and have asked many other Presidents in the area on how they rate their administrators but so far I have not found one who would actually recommend the people they use. So we have three options.

1.Carry on with the one we are using and give them warnings each year.

2.Find another, who could be far worse.

3.Try running our own affairs.

I am very interested in hearing from any committee who have actually taken the plunge and do all of the work themselves, it is not so much the financial savings, although any extra coming into the community would be welcome but more the feeling we are not in control of our own affairs and paying someone good money who has no interest in the lives of the people who actually live here.

Thanks.

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19 Aug 2011 12:00 AM:

Hi,

I am the President of an urbanisation with 120 properties, we are not happy with our administrators and want to know how easy it is to run an urbanisation without one.

We already produce our own budgets each year and our own quarterly financial reports we also deal with most suppliers directly without going through the administrator. As far as we can see the administrator just deals with the bank, we have very little debts to worry about.

We would like to control everything ourselves with perhaps just paying a solicitor as and when we need legal advice.

Has any other communities taken this action and decided to control everything themselves without an administrator and if so has it worked?.

Any advice would be gratefully received

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