Pain In The Arse Strata Manager Not Even Hijacking Maintenance Decisions To Make A Buck

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT

The residents a blonde brick unit block in Betoota's Flight Path District is currently being held captive by the needless theatrics of the old duck that has been regrettably elevated to strata manager.

Dianne Lansbury (68) has no good reason to delay the maintenance schedule, other than the fact that it brings her joy to make things more difficult than they need to be.

But while her antisocial contrarian behavior is extremely stressful for her neighbours, the most upsetting part of it all is that she's not even corrupt.

With a repaint well overdue and the floorboards in the lobby starting to destabilise under the carpet, even the most financially stressed first home-owners can agree it's time to bring in some tradesmen to give this place a bit of love.

After at least six different quotes for each job, the committee seems pretty content that they've found the blokes they need - for the best price.

But Dianne still thinks it's worth 'exploring options'.

"We've spent the best part of the year exploring options" says one fed-up committee member.

"Every single one of us has made peace with the fact that you cannot get a tradie round for a decent price anymore. All of their prices went up during the pandemic and they haven't come down. She knows that."

But Dianne says it's not the price that she's worried about, she understands you need to pay for quality in this day and age.

"It's just, I think this is being rushed a little" she says.

"Who are these people? Has anyone used them before? I just feel like they are carbon clones of one another? Surely there's people out there that actually love the work they do"

Another committee member says she has suspicions that Dianne is disrupting this decision-making process because the committee rejected her plan to render brickwork in a ragged Tuscan-style ocre.

"That's what's behind this. She's seen something in a magazine and wants to pretend we live in Italy or Morrocco"

"I could totally understand if she had a nephew or a son that she wanted to siphon the funds. Or if she was a part-owner of the construction company we hired. I'd actually go along with it. But she's not making a buck from this"

As tensions begin to escalate, Dianne is now at the stage of delivering handwritten letters under certain doors in the building, hoping to solidify a voter block by tearing open the old wounds of previous neighbourly spats.