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Jimmy-T
Keymaster

    I believe Queensland Body Corporate law currently forbids the pre-agreement of contracts APART FROM management rights.

    This is a conscious decision by earlier governments to put more money into developers’ pockets and efforts to unwind it have been strongly resisted over the years by all sorts of professionals with their noses in the trough.

    The Queensland branch of Strata Community Association (the strata managers’ professional body), for instance, has claimed in the past that it has no official opinion on the matter because, they told me, it has never discussed it (if you can believe that).

    Meanwhile its members have reportedly been sighted at seminars set up to explain to caretaker managers how they can convert 10-year residential contracts into 25-year accommodation contracts.

    It’s not just them.  Some lawyers, real estate agents and, of course, management right traders are very much in favour.  This is a stain that runs deep and has more than a whiff of “white shoe” about it.

    No simple amendment to strata procedures will untangle this web of legalised corruption.

    The opinions offered in these Forum posts and replies are not intended to be taken as legal advice. Readers with serious issues should consult experienced strata lawyers.