Reply To: By-law breaches by absent owner
I wonder if the insurance issue is a case of “loading up” as the police call it when they add multiple offences to the original charge, just to make sure…
Reply To: By-law breaches by absent owner
Just getting back to ‘wooden furniture’ in storage cage for a moment. Im questioning the claim re insurance. Very often, stuff in a cage is covered by furniture covers etc…
Reply To: Levies shock: the crippling cost of compliance
Hi Folks, The steep increase in the cost of remedial works doesn’t just result from the introduction of the DB& P Act, it is a combined result of the Home…
Reply To: Levies shock: the crippling cost of compliance
Hi thanks for your feedback. Yes, it appears in the drafting of the DBP Act, the implication is that ‘ building consultants’ were not doing a sufficient job, hence the…
Levies shock: the crippling cost of compliance
In the great league table of law changes and their unintended consequences, the fall out from the Design & Building Practitioners Act (DBPA), is up there with the effects of…
By-law breaches by absent owner
I live in a block of 20 units in Sydney. All our units have an undercover car space and storage cage allocated with their title. We have a situation in…
Strata gambling: Chances are you’re about to lose
Strata investment is enough of a gamble without trusting that "she'll be right". There sharks in that water and you need to beware.
Committee sacked but it just comes back
Until 2018 the Strata Committee and Owners Corporation had been highly functional organisations with the building and its maintenance at the forefront of our priorities. In 2019 the owners corporation…
Forum: Committee sacked but it just comes back
FORUM: How a strata committee fell apart - and compulsory management was merely a pause in hostilities rather than a solution
NEWS: Hard-hit burbs and rental bond robbery
NEWS: From robbed renters to hard-hit owners, all the left field apartment stories from just one day this week.
Reply To: Can we carry over Admin funds surpluses at EOFY?
I think it would be good practice to always have some sort of contingency and not be targeting a $0 EOFY balance. It only takes 1 or 2 units to…
Reply To: Can we carry over Admin funds surpluses at EOFY?
Strata Ken wrote: Jimmy-T wrote: Worth remembering that excess funds can only be returned to owners (in NSW) if there is a unanimous vote (as in, no votes against) to…