Strata shock! Why your levies are way too high
Why are your levies a lot higher than you expected? There's no mystery and you can reduce them – if you’re prepared to get stuck in.
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Forum: Can you rent car spots to non-residents?
Forum: Bid to prevent non-residents from renting parking spaces; tenant can't get oven repaired, new block paying old block's bills, Secretary stops rogue parking.
Forum: Entitled to be angry over unfair levies
The vexed question of unfairly distributed Unit Entitlements - leading to unfairly collected levies - has been hotting up the Flat Chat Forum, this week.
Forum: Is this new proxy farming voter fraud?
The new proxy farming, not refunding unneeded special levies, dealing with an added asbestos shed and revealing defects to potential buyers - all in this week's Forum.
Forum: Growing pains for a strata garden
Anti-garden complaint, what happened to the Netstrata inquiry, informing owners about NCAT actions, combining strata loans and special levies.
Forum: No fire checks without smokescreens
Should the same firms that do fire checks be paid to fix the faults they discover? Plus blending levies and loans to pay for major works - all that and…
New laws: compulsory training for committees
New laws tabled this week will force strata committee members to undergo training, levies in new blocks will have to be realistic and embedded network scams could see sales cancelled.
Time to finally end the disruptive low levies lurk
Developers can still emply a low levies lurk, setting fees at unfeasibly low rates to attract buyers, then sit back and watch as they rise to meet real needs and…
Forum: Levies squeezes and admin fund fiddles
There’s an old saying in strata – the smaller the block, the bigger the problems. When everyone knows each other, any points of conflict can quickly become personal. Add to…
Forum: Hanging out for an answer on abseilers
There’s a really interesting post on the Forum about the first year in a new block’s life, but it has been sitting there for a week with a stack of…
Podcast: Tax fixer-uppers and strata spies
The tax office is targetting double-dipping landlords who claim all sorts of things they shouldn’t, or just claim for stuff the wrong way.For instance, property investors routinely claim levies as a tax…
Forum: SM using my own votes against me
There’s nothing that quite matches the feeling of frustration and helplessness when the professionals that you count on to do the right thing are doing the opposite. It doesn’t have…