Hi everybody, I want to share a quite odd experience and also ask advice about how to deal with it.
Im a foreigner, marriage APRC, and I bought an apartment in Taiwan a couple of years ago.
As You may know in Taiwan the building collect monthly fees from each apartment and have a apartments owners committee (usually 5/6 peoples) elected each year by a owners general meeting which will manage this money for the necessary expenses during the following year (repairing, fixed costs etc).
Last year I was elected, among others , in fact because me and my wife, who has quite long experience in such kind of committees in other buildings, exposed at this general meeting some suspicious situations about past management results.
After we got in charge my wife checking past years accounting documents find out several proofs of bad use of our building money, such as giving maintenances jobs to companies in friendly relationships with previous committee members (who happened to be in maintenance business), no official invoices and many other stuffs: nothing probably so bad to justify a criminal case but lets say with strong evidences of money spent largely (700% more than previous years average) and being used to make someone friends happy.
Now the old committee members start to panic, at least about the perspective to lose this chance to make such kind of money personal use in future, so they are trying to stop us with several attempts, the last of which is to call an extraordinary general meeting and propose to make impossible for whoever do not speak Chinese (only me in the building) to be part of such committee.
Now a part the fact that is clearly just a pretext being in fact my Taiwanese wife acting in my behalf in all meetings, this would be a clear discrimination act and to try to limit this people future misconducts I would like to sue them in a most effective way.
A part to go to a lawyer , I will do that, is there in Taiwan some governmental authority to which I can relate to in order to protect my owners rights as foreigner?
Thanks for any constructive advices