By-Laws, Levy Recovery, Management Agreements
Posted 30 September 2021
Whilst the most common strata building defects are still generally water ingress from defective membranes and window sealants as well as the fire and life safety non-compliances we are now also seeing…
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Strata, Management Agreements
Posted 25 August 2021
There has been a widespread practice of extending caretaking or building management agreements to get around the 10 year cap in the Strata Schemes Management Act 2015 (SSMA 2015). In the recent appeal…
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Strata, Management Agreements
Posted 04 November 2019
The majority of strata schemes across the country have builder managers, caretakers and strata managers in place to assist the owners corporation in managing and maintaining common property. Under leg…
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Strata, Management Agreements
Posted 23 October 2017
A number of legal and practical issues arise when one proposes to acquire a strata management agency business and wishes to obtain the full benefit of the business acquired.…
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Strata, Management Agreements
Posted 23 October 2017
Management rights issues
There have been a lot of enquiries about community associations and strata schemes being dissatisfied with caretaking/building management rights arrangements put in place b…
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Strata, Management Agreements
Posted 23 October 2017
Building Management Agreements
The Strata Schemes Management Act 2015 (the Act) uses the term “building manager” in place of the term “caretaker”, which had been used under previous legisla…
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Strata, Management Agreements
Posted 13 March 2017
Many agency agreements are due to expire on 29 May 2017 due to the operation of Section 50(1) and clause 14(1) of Schedule 3 of the Strata Schemes Management Act 2015.…
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Strata, Management Agreements, NCAT and Court Proceedings, Strata Reform
Posted 28 October 2016
In a democracy, majority rules even if those decisions are bad. If you are in the minority, there is not much you can do until the next election (or annual general meeting) at which time you may try t…
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