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The Job of the Committee

Teys Lawyers
Effective Governance for Executive Bodies of Strata Communities. A clear statement of the role and responsibilities of any group can be the biggest step towards improving effectiveness and satisfaction. While there are some legal differences between the role of a committee, council or executive of a strata community (as they are variously called), there are analogies between the practical functions of a committee and the board of a company. In this analogy, the strata manager is the CEO of t.....
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Are Strata Disputes Making Life in Your Scheme "Horrendous"?

Currently across Australia’s there are 280,000 owners’ corporations, bodies corporate, and strata companies housing over 24% of Australia’s residents. Further, with approximately 40% of all new developments being in medium or high density housing, the growth looks to continue. With people living in such close proximity, all with diverse backgrounds, interests and practices, it is inevitable that disputes will be a part of strata living. Strata neighbour disputes are a regular occurr....
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The Future of Caretaking Renumeration

This post, written by Frank Higginson, Hynes Legal has received an interesting discussion comment from John Edds, Body Corporate Rescue.
Resident managers don’t always receive what they expect in terms of remuneration. What follows is an unedifying spectacle of the Resident managers then trying to disassociate themselves from the review saying e.g “We shouldn’t have to perform all of those duties for the small amount of mon...
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Building Defects Forum

A request was made to LookUpStrata for a Building Defects Forum. This forum has now been created. As you may be aware, in 2012 research into strata living was conducted by the University of NSW. They found that 85% of people living in schemes built since 2000 felt that their building had some degree of defects. A large proportion of these people reported that the strata building defects had still not been fixed even up to 10 years later.....
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