Is it legal for community owners to set up their own properties?

You can't. Owners can hire a property service company to manage, or they can convene a general meeting of all owners to elect the owners' committee before the management is authorized by the owners' committee. The owners' committee itself cannot provide property services, because the owners' committee belongs to a civil organization, that is, a non-profit organization, not an enterprise, and can entrust a property management company to manage the property on behalf of the owners. A community can set up its own property to govern itself, but it cannot set up a property management company. If the owner wants to set up a residential property management company, he must follow legal procedures, such as qualification procedures and bidding procedures. And they can't set up their own management company. However, if the community itself has property services, it can only replace the community property company after the service expires. Relevant property management laws and policies allow owners to carry out relevant property management service activities in this community (that is, owner autonomy), but from my personal experience, the advantage of owner autonomy is not necessarily stronger than hiring a property company for management. The only advantage is that it can reduce costs (pay reasonable profits to the property company), and other management service costs are also indispensable. Owners' autonomy management will also face many defects and constraints. It is suggested to set up industry committees and choose good external property companies to provide management services.

Does the owner of residential property monitoring have the right to see it?

You can watch, but you can't just watch. Owners of residential property monitoring can't check casually. Although the surveillance video materials belong to all owners, some of them involve the interests of other owners. Based on the requirement of privacy protection for all owners, individual owners have no right to extract surveillance video materials for viewing, but they can extract them through the public security department.

Legal basis: Civil Code of People's Republic of China (PRC).

Article 284 The owner may manage the building and its ancillary facilities by himself, or entrust the management to the property service enterprise or other managers. The owner has the right to replace the realty service enterprise or other managers selected by the construction unit according to law.

Article 285 A realty service enterprise or other manager shall accept the entrustment of the owner, manage the buildings and their ancillary facilities within the building division in accordance with the stipulations of the realty service contract in Part III of this Law, accept the supervision of the owner, and promptly answer the owner's inquiries about realty service. Property service enterprises or other managers shall implement emergency measures and other management measures implemented by the government according to law, and actively cooperate with relevant work.