Can an owner, who lives in the building and has no qualifications as a Building Manager and who isn’t registered as one, be hired as a Building Manager and be paid for their duties?
Can the Building manager receive an annual Honorarium instead of a salary?
If not, then can the person do the job, without remuneration?
Can the Building Manager be on the Body Corp committee or is that considered to be a conflict of interest?
Our Owners Corporation of 6 units is self-managed. Four of the lots are resident owners and the other two lots are investments. The resident owners all carry out voluntary work including all gardening, mowing, handyman jobs plus all the tasks usually carried out by strata managers (financial, secretarial, meetings, minutes, quotes, etc) to reduce costs. We have estimated this saving to be around $4000/pa, $666/lot per year.
What is the definition of excessive noise?
We've received a breach for our dog barking. I’m trying to understand how my dog, who might have barked for less than 1 minute, could have breached this bylaw.
I have owned a unit for around 8 years and changed nothing. The unit has laminate-style flooring throughout. I’m in QLD and have recently received a noise complaint. The Strata Manager said I need to do a noise test at my own cost.
This seems unreasonable, especially if the flooring is noise compliant and I’ve received no noise complaints over the past 8 years. Can I be forced to do an acoustic test at my own cost?
We have owned our unit in a hundred-unit complex for fifteen years. We share a main bedroom wall with our neighbour's living room. Over the last couple of years, noise has become a problem. Maybe that is due to new technology, i.e. large smart televisions, sound bars and video games.
The neighbour's television sits alongside our shared wall. We experience noise transfer, sometimes until 3 am. The base, in particular, is quite loud, as well as muffled voices, and it disturbs our sleep.
Recent minutes did not mention the attendance of the (non owner and non proxied) son of an owner. The owner was also present. The son was elected to the Strata committee as chair, nominated by the owner and voted by other attendees. I am being told that only owners names will be listed as attendees and that is why this person’s name is not on the minutes. But surely, we should include all those who attended?