Reply To: Landlord Insurance for Leaking Balcony
Thanks for the replies, just wanted to update as I don’t see many coming back with one. My insurance company has agreed to pay the claim. It was due to…
Reply To: How do we ready owners for levies shock?
Deflect blame to the developer who did what developers do when they sell units: They set the levies artificially low to attract sales and now the new executive committee has…
Sustainability the rage at OCN conference
It’s that time of year again, when strata experts drag themselves away from their research projects and academic papers to pass on their wisdom at seminars and workshops. The next…
Podcast: Soft soap won’t clean up strata scandal
So the NSW Fair Trading Minister has revealed his law changes in the wake of the Netstrata scandal and they are, as one strata insider put it, like being slapped on the…
Big strata wins again as new laws tread softly
It seems one person’s regulation is another’s backdoor legitimacy, if the reaction to this week’s anticipated “crackdown” on strata managers by NSW Fair Trading is anything to go by. Minister…
Reply To: Can committee mix and match payments from different funds?
So I think the capital fund was used to pay for outstanding invoices that were administrative. It was masked as having been for damage to a large expense asset. Our…
Big and bright ideas meet huge strata challenges
By Jimmy Thomson and Sue Williams Black mould built into new homes, fire safety measures ignored and undermined, real estate marketers (rather than town planners) shaping our cities – these…
Reply To: Influencing of votes for an upcoming AGM?
Granted what they are doing sounds very unreasonable, and if the consequential loss is due to a CP issue then yes you should be covered. NCAT does take a long…
Can committee mix and match payments from different funds?
Hello All, Quick question, for reasons I can only speculate about, our strata manager paid for damage to common property partly from the admin fund and partly from the capital…
Reply To: Did former Strata Manager delay handover to collect insurance commission?
When I am more alert I will read your post again, but one thing sticks out: you wrote: Can anyone advise if they consider the termination was done correctly per…
Reply To: Did former Strata Manager delay handover to collect insurance commission?
Hello Steady Sam, It helps just to clarify and unpack what’s actually happened here… The Strata Management Agreement expired on 12/12/23 (3 year anniversary) The Notice received from the old…
By-laws ‘optional’ for committee members and mates
I’m curious about the legality of special treatment or dispensations for some owners. More to the point how to reverse it? Basically the committee and strata manager think that compliance…