Several years ago our OC’s management agreement with Independent Property Group was a standard (ACT) agreement with the SCA logo in the top left corner of the first page. The AGM noticed an asymmetry between ‘Termination by the OC’ and ‘Termination by the agent’ clauses: They did not have to give us as much notice as we had to give them. The AGM decided to appoint the manager subject to changing the required notice to being 28 days for both parties. The manager agreed to the change which was made by hand on the standard form and initialed. It was just a matter of crossing out the printed ’14’ and writing ’28’ instead with the change initialed on each copy.
Perhaps what the agent really means is that the agreement is only available to the managing agent electronically and locked down with only some flelds editable. If they are young they might not be aware of an old-fashioned but more flexible technology known as ‘hand-writing’. 😉