Re: Short term let threat from B’n’B website
Jimmy’s comments about parasites is absolutely ‘on the mark’. Living in a property where approximately 55 or 163 residential lots are leased short-term is unpleasant and expensive in the extreme. …
Re: Special levy
It is not normal to have continued special levies. Nearly all the time one would expect to have only the expected expenses and they should be covered in a budget…
Special levy
Hello, I just had a quick question regarding levies. We have just had a special levy raised to pay for “additional painting” to the building which I thought we had…
Re: Responsibility for continued defects not found – strata manager, engineer, etc.
If money was misappropiate by anyone and you can prove it you have a claim under your Strata Insurance Policy Policy 5 – Fidelity guarantee What we insure We will,…
Re: Access to balcony?
Hi scotlandx, I’ve actually had this discussion with a High Court Judge and some very well established Strata Lawyers who dated the Trespass laws all the way back to…
Re: Duty to Repair Common Property – The Law has Changed!!
@leif said: Jimmy I think with no damages for not following the SSM there clearly will be less care about SSM in the future. I assume the new finding does…
Re: Should I be worried?
I assume JimmyT is talking about LukeR’s post about the non-approved alterations to a fire rated ceiling when he says: “I reckon a smart lawyer would, on appeal, have argued…
Re: Duty to Repair Common Property – The Law has Changed!!
What the judgment says is that the remedy available in the event of a failure to comply with section 62 is prescribed by the Act, and therefore the Act circumscribes…
Re: Unusual strata plan – avoid?
@David said: …The plan has been registered in June 2011, but seems to be unusual in that the “whole of the building including floors, walls, ceilings, roof, verandahs, balconies, terraces,…
Re: Water usage
As you mention Sydney Water I know your Plan is in NSW, so… What’s actually happening is that the Owners of the 12 Units are each receiving a quarterly account…
Re: Owners Corporation Committee acting illegally
…and assuming Oscar 47 is in NSW, the Committee is also required to provide a Notice of Meeting (Agenda) to all Owners a minimum 72 hours in advance (ref: Sch.3…
Re: Strata Manager fees
The problem here isn’t over-charging or, probably, corruption – it’s basic incompetence. If your current strata manager didn’t know that you can’t have “General Business” on an AGM agenda then…