Strata Articles
No extension required for your late community management statement
My daughter was born 7 days late. Since then she has effortlessly maintained a strict regime of unpunctuality. Last term, her tardy approach to scholarly, musical and sporting endeavours was [...]
A win for bodies corporate recovering outstanding levies
Are you a body corporate manager or do you sit on a committee? Have you been frustrated by lot owners claiming damages alleging the body corporate has somehow breached a [...]
Swapping Exclusive Use – Easy As
Back in the heyday of my youth, when Donkey Kong was cutting edge gaming, we used to spend our lunch breaks playing with Kiss (the American glam metal band) [...]
Nose Pollution
Each winter we embark on a camping expedition to a secluded site on the Pumicestone Passage. Aside from fishing and relaxing, the only obligatory activity is afternoon aperitifs, set [...]
Knock Knock: Who’s There? It’s Your Body Corporate …
As an owner of a unit in a strata complex, one quickly realises that the old maxim an Englishman’s home is his castle is inapposite for that style of [...]
Merry Christmas – You have invalid by-laws
There is an odd dichotomy between the adoption and enforcement of by-laws in Queensland. A body corporate can generally approve a change to its by-laws at a general meeting [...]
Can bodies corporate recover costs incurred in chasing outstanding levies?
Recalcitrant lot owners who refuse to pay outstanding levies are unfortunately an inevitable part of scheme living, just like dealing with rogue contractors or fights about water ingress. The [...]
FOMO V FOMO
The Fear of Missing Out (FOMO) is heightened amongst property owners in South East Queensland at the moment. Growth that we haven’t seen for decades continues to baffle and [...]
Can a body corporate “buy out” the building manager?
Let me start out by making this observation - sometimes it’s tricky to figure out what someone is really asking. Perhaps because of a language barrier… like the time [...]
The rules have changed – host a social media page at your peril
Like many, I’m a unit owner and, similarly like many, my body corporate committee has set up a Facebook page. There’s no doubting the intent of that – it’s [...]
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