Hi Jimmy, The building does not have a common property bathroom facility for workers, owners etc. The by-law is meant to cover Building Code Australia (BCA F2.1) compliance for employees,…
The problem here is how the extra premium is defined and on what scale. There are numerous variables when it comes to underwriting strata insurance and this scenario could be…
Beauie, for all sorts of reasons from security and privacy you can expect that that any by-law as such would be invalidated quickly when it came before an adjudicator in…
Recently I looked at alternative quotes for our Strata Insurance. Some friends recommended a company, well known, but only new to strata insurance. They sounded competitive, and they only insured…
TrulEConcerned wrote: Jimmy what you say is true: a lot owner who wins does not have to share in the cost of legal fees of the OC (s. 104) 3.…
Life must be pretty sweet for the former NSW Fair Trading civil servants who were tipped into the Building Commissioner’s defects taskforce. No longer do they have to deal with…
For a set of about 100 townhouses on a large site with a large common property trees and garden area to maintain, our levies average about $3000/unit/year. About 90% of…
optusJo wrote: I think a problem with all of these disputes is that an owner believes that the SM knows the answers and is there to help. You then find…
Hi Jimmy and brains trust We’re about to enter into a large contract with a builder for remedial work on balconies constructed in 1975. The contract is on a Fair…
UberOwner wrote: I think you’d be approaching the owners first to get their agreement. Yeah, I skipped that option, exposing my misanthropic tendencies. That would indeed be the first and…
shedsrus wrote: And certainly the legislators have said OC’s cannot discriminate against STHL lots in any way. Where did they say this? I don’t recall STHL properties being given such…
Building Commissioner David Chandler believes another Mascot Towers may have been avoided thanks to his department’s intervention in a high-rise development in Wollongong. “The nightmare at Crown View in Wollongong…