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For a number of years I did the cleaning and gardening in the Strata in which I live. The Strata management required that I had a company with the suitable insurances and that I invoiced them via that company. I have a mate who put out and took in the bins in his (small) complex. The Strata management company at that place required that he also invoice them directly.
You might be lucky enough to find a notice in the common area of that building but asking people usually doesn’t produce a good response if a large proportion of them rent.
Perhaps a local estate agent would be able to provide that information if they’ve had anything to do with the building.
We had this situation a couple of years ago. The railings on three balconies needed to be replaced since they were starting to show damage. Our Strata Manager informed us that since they were being replaced we were required to bring all the other ones in the building up to compliance with the latest standards. Our approach was to get new railings for the three affected balconies and then to install a bar across all balconies to bring it up to the newly required height. That met the standard, looked quite good, and was a lot cheaper than replacing the entire thing.
There are two buildings in our Strata. We did not need to do that on the other building since none of their balcony balustrades needed fixing.
Is there a feed for these podcasts? It makes it easier for those of us who use podcast apps to never miss an episode.
Permission to chop trees down vary with councils. Ours (Western Sydney) was always against cutting down any trees whereas the council next door allowed almost all applications to do so.
Only when our council was one of a number that was sacked by the State govt and replaced with an administrator were we able to get a successful application through. So I’d get your Strata manager to check first with the council to see what are the odds of getting your application approved before actually making it.
We’ve had issues with signs over the years. Things became a lot better when we started implementing the following:
1) Passed a resolution to ban ‘for lease’ signs. Most people just go to an agency rather than scour the streets for available accommodation so that was a big scourge of visual clutter removed.
2) Specified a location where the signs may be placed. These are to the side of the building so residents are not faced with it every time walking down the front path (especially the huge picture ones so prevalent these days).
3) Emailed the estate agents (with photos) when they put signs in the wrong place or leave up ‘sold’ too long (pointing out that this building is a home for many people and not merely an advertising hoarding for them). I usually mention that it’s an EC rule of which the strata managers should have made therm aware. They are given 24 hours to move the sign.
Since doing this we have had far less trouble with signs going up and having them removed.