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@PeterC said:
Not just who pays but whether they will pay! If you try to get people to pay for the required work via a levy or taking a loan there is a good chance people will vote to do nothing and spend nothing. If you have a sinking fund plan in place and the levy is planned and on a schedule etc. people get used to it and don’t complain (at least not as much). If the plan includes a contingency component and something unexpected needs doing, or you even propose an improvement to the common property, there is a chance it will be approved because the money has already left people’s pockets.There are savings to be made from attending to work in a timely manner as well.
I agree.
My preference is to have slight increases in levies over the years than Special Levies, or Loans. Now I am not working full time and prefer to have an idea of my quarterly costs if at all possible. I realise there will always be emergencies and not enough money available, but at least there is some.
Loans have charges and interest rates do not always stay low.
Tenant might benefit from seeing a good medical doctor?
Could be something very nasty going on inside him!
Just to go back a bit. Surely a dog should not be running around outside a Strata complex without the owner being with it and having it on a leash?
If the owner (Tolerance?) is in a two storey unit and the dog is in his downstairs yard, his camera could be downstairs and pointed into his own yard.
Lara and Luca come across as reasonable residents voicing the concerns of other residents.
It will be obvious that I do not know anything about Strata insurance, but, I know that if I make a $76 claim against my home or car insurance policy, my insurance cost would skyrocket when the renewal date came up.
Maybe O. C.’s pay the highest premium all the time because there are always claims?
Just wondering.
Sad it a pet can not just visit while the owner has a meal with you!
@Apartment 101 said:
Hello! Wondering if you could clarify the position with visiting pets in strata buildings. If I have a friend over for lunch or staying overnight, can they visit with their pet? Permanent resident pets are allowed in my building provided body corporate permission is sought. Thanks.Are you talking about several friends with different pets, or one friend?
You have asked Flat Chat Forum, so why not just apply to the E.C. or S.M. for permission for the pet/s to stay over?
If the pet is a goldfish there is no problem, but bigger pets need more care to be taken, especially disposing of their waste products. Surely you just need to show that has been considered, waste will be disposed of correctly, especially if cat litter is needed. If the pet is a dog, that it is well behaved, not noisy, and will be on a leash on common property.
@webwrx said:
In a 38-lot complex on the Central Coast.Interest in our EC imploded at our last AGM which resulted in only 2 nominated members this year.
Webrex,
Why did interest in your EC ‘implode’?
Jimmy said ‘we need to get our facts right’. I agree it looks like everyone wants to ‘nail’ the two EC members.
If only two O.C. members put their hands up to be on the E.C., how many of the other 36 owners are going to step up and agree to be E.C. members if you get rid of the two workers?
It looks like things are at least getting done, even if it is starting in their own lots.
Petard, you are just trying an April Fool’s Day joke right?
If not, why are you willing to have your roof fall in on you?
Of course you have to get all sorts of permission.
I am sure the Gurus will elaborate.
@Whale said:
I’d like to extend my sincere and very best Christmas wishes to all Flat Chatters and especially (in no particular order) to Jimmy T, Struggs, Scotty, and PeterC who like me, are no doubt hoping for a great 2013 where we’ll possibly see some new Strata Legislation (in NSW), the subsumption of the CTTT, and improved living for all in Dardanelle Towers!I want to add my Christmas and New Year greetings to Jimmy, the wonderful ‘gurus’, and all who read and contribute to the Flat Chat Forum. Here’s to a great 2013!
@Whale said:
oops – I just posted after Kiwipaul, who may well have answered little voice’s post, so I’ll delay commenting lest I duplicate that answer.Whale, I wish you had gone ahead and made your comment. Jimmy must still be pondering over Kiwi Paul’s comment.
Seems to me that if a person forgets to notify the Managing Agent they will be away and make other arrangements, or even pay levies in advance if they are away for a while, they still owe any interest or penalties on top of the levies.
@Felix said:
In Feb. 2012 a fire inspection was done which resulted in the smoke alarm detector being replaced. The alarm was free standing and not to bore you with details the dispute should be between the Managing Agent and the lot owner and not between the lot owner and the dysfunctional executive committee.The main point is this: The quarterly levy came out and it was paid as indicated. Now we have another payment due which arrived a couple of days ago.
However the accounts dept. of the managing agent applied part of our levy payment to the smoke alarm account and then charged interest on the debit which makes us unfinancial. I talked to some senior management of the managing agent and they said they advised the EC and it would be brought up at a recent meeting. According to the minutes it doesn’t appear to have been discussed.
An EGM may be coming up soon and we would be unfinancial and unable to vote.
Again this has been going on since Feb.
What advice would you give please
Felix, it seems you have a debt and interest is owing that needs to be paid. In other forums the discussion recognises that in the main, smoke alarms are the responsibility of the owner. Why not pay and save yourself more interest seeing as you will probably be told you have to pay?
The Executive Committee represents yourself and the other owners. If you are not happy with them they can be replaced if other owners agree with you.
@daphne diaphanous said:
Talking about looking at documents held by the SM, I have been asked by a friend in a neighbouring strata to lend him our AGM booklet (AGM notification, agenda, accounts & proposed budget produced by the SM) for him to photocopy for comparison. I have seen nothing in it to indicate any copyright or other confidentiality warning. Will it be legal to lend it to him?Daphne, you are lucky to get your information in a booklet. We just get several pages of A4 paper, but it does give the information we need, and our SM answers questions during the AGM.
Another question is whether I can copy the documents held by the SM when I see them. Any answers?
I suspect your SM may charge you for each page copied, as well as for the time taken. I can not imagine you would be able to take original documents away from the office, unless that is why there are so few documents available.
Has your Secretary kept copies of Minutes, correspondence, etc.?
The legality or not of towing your daughter’s car I will leave to someone else, but some things do not make sense.
The vehicle registration papers will prove her car had number plates and that it was registered. If the car had been sitting in one place for a long time (while your daughter was waiting to get her license), the Owners may have thought it was abandoned.
Where was your daughter when all this was happening?
In NSW, motor vehicle registration can be checked with Roads and Maritime, and most cars still would have a registration sticker with the date of the registration. In our suburb, an abandoned vehicle sits on the street for several weeks until reported, then the council sticks a large notice on the windshield stating it could be towed away as an abandoned vehicle.
Why would your daughter leave valuable items, especially a wedding dress in her car? As is obvious, just about anyone can break into a motor vehicle if they want. We are warned not to leave anything valuable in the car, and even if insured, she may not be paid.
Paul, I suggest your relative gets urgent legal advice. The people who advertise at this Forum are recommended by Jimmy.
If there was a claim on the insurance, I suspect that nothing would be paid as the other party probably did not mention the need for compulsory flood cover for the area. It would not even need to be a flood claim for them to refuse to pay, so $1,600 would be wasted if you can not cancel and get a refund.
I do not think that the other owner can just ‘contra off’ the amount owing for roof repairs.
I think it will be cheaper in the long run to get good advice now, instead of waiting for things to get worse.
Maybe starting with a dictionary to explain to the other owner the meaning of ‘compulsory’.