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Q&A Overcrowding and Number of Occupants in NSW Apartments
Leanne Habib, Premium Strata Question: If an apartment is tenanted, how many occupants are allowed in a 2 bedroom unit? I suspect overcrowding in the apartment next door to ours.
QLD: Q&A Body Corporate Spending Without Required Approvals
Todd Garsden, Hynes Legal Question: A casual conversation between lot owners has been taken as approval to carry out improvements although the required body corporate spending process was not adhered to. Costs have blown out. Who is responsible for the overspend?
SA: Q&A Strata Voting Rules When Strata Manager Holds Proxies Alice Rogers-Ross, Ace Body Corporate Management
Question: When voting on change of strata management at the AGM, how can the strata manager vote with their proxies to keep his contract? Surely this is a conflict.
Bannermans Lawyers Owners Corporations have a variety of options to generate revenue from their common property. A question which frequently arises is whether schemes can sell or lease their visitor car parking spaces on the common property to lot owners or third parties.
NSW: OCN Steps Into The Breach on Flammable Cladding!
Karen Stiles, Owners Corporation Network (OCN) In response to the increasing need for information and assistance, OCN is inviting affected strata committee members, strata managers, and building and facilities managers to a seminar:
Don’t Get Burnt by Flammable Cladding
Lacrosse fire ruling sends shudders through building industry consultants and governments
Geoff Hanmer, UNSW So shocking is the VCAT decision to architects that the national president of the Australian Institute of Architects suggested in an email to members last Friday that they might need to seek counselling.
QLD: Natural and Engineered Stone Restoration & Maintenance We cover various treatments and procedures related to Polishing, Resurfacing, Cleaning, Repair, Sealing of all stone types.
WA: Quality Cleaning For Every Visit - Perth to Mandurah
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We don’t need to rehash what we have written previously about the state government’s cladding laws but you can read the article again if you want to.
The date for all buildings that are caught by the cladding regulations to effectively opt out of the regime (if that is the case) is 29 March. If you don’t opt out, your building is going to stage two, with the consequential costs, even if it is not caught.
If you haven’t looked at the cladding issue, the time is nigh.
National: Have Your Say and WIN
Would you like to win a $1000 prepaid visa? Then complete this short survey on behalf of Australian Apartment Advocacy so that they can lobby government and developers for better outcomes for those of us who choose to live and own apartments as our preference. The link for the survey is HERE and you have until 31 March to complete.
Remember if you have already done the survey then you will not be able to undertake it again.
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QLD: If the Government was even half serious about 25 year contracts, it could start introducing 3 year contracts (not retrospectively) and then potential caretakers would not have to borrow from the banks to fund the ridiculous good will that attaches to Management Rights (MR) that cost unit owners millions of dollars over the 25 years.
NSW: My building was built in 1972, 12 apartments, brick built and the only aluminium is the window frames. The fear and scare mongering since the fires in London has made our body corp to seek a cert when there is no panelling anywhere obviously we all pay, another furphy and keeping someone in a job.
QLD: Can the owner of one lot in a Body Corporate nominate themselves for the position of Secretary and ordinary member of the committee at the Annual General Meeting?
