Minister explains new strata laws in detail
The proposed new strata laws and the thinking behind them were explained in the NSW Parliament this week by Fair Trading Minister Anoulak Chanthivong.
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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.
Forum: How to avoid conflicts over interests
There were a few interesting tweaks to NSW strata earlier this year and one of them was a radical reform of the conflict of interest rules. Previously committee members who…
How to avoid paying other strata owners’ bad debts
Recent media reports about levies (or fees) debts and their consequences may have alarmed some apartment owners and puzzled others. A Sun-Herald story earlier this month about the “cruel” owners’…
New laws to make owners fix common property
Strata schemes that are dragging their feet on repairs may be forced to undertake them, embedded networks that cheat apartment owners could be killed off, pet application fees could be…
Unintended consequences of late levies – lost jobs and voting rights
There’s a lot of chat at the moment about the pressure on people to pay levies when they might have lost their job or their income has been reduced. I…