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We are a group of six units. One unit refuses to pay for gardening maintenance or any work done over this past year to ensure the upkeep and functioning of the common areas, e.g. lighting, landscape, etc.

What are our options for dealing with this difficult owner? How do we enforce the strata rules? I have communicated the strata rules a few times. What do I do if they continue to refuse? All other owners have paid in full and have no issues.

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I am the chairperson of our units. A new resident's large 4WD ute does not fit within the lot car space and hangs over onto common property. Our by-laws do not address this. What can the body corporate do? The resident who uses the car space next to this one is unable to park without damaging the garden.

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My SMSF owns one lot in a six lot strata scheme in North Queensland. The other five lots are owner occupied. We have two executive committee members and four ordinary committee members. I am not an executive committee member, although I have been.

One lot owner has managed to get on the wrong side of everyone in the complex, as well as the current body corporate manager and previous managers. Nobody is willing to work with this person or be associated with them because of constant name calling, negative criticisms, and insulting and disparaging comments.

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We have a potential safety issue when exiting our complex. Our small complex of seven villas exits onto a busy main road. The road's speed limit is 50 km per hour. Local road rules permit parking on either side of our driveway, making it impossible to see oncoming traffic before being on the roadway. We've had one minor accident and many near misses. The committee has written and phoned the local council to see what can be done. Unfortunately, they have not responded. If there was a serious accident, what liability would the owners corporation (OC) have?

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Our committee does not wish to reappoint the current owners corporation manager for another 12 months at the forthcoming AGM. We have identified an alternative manager who could take over at the end of the current manager’s contract, which expires about a month after the AGM.

Do we need a majority of owners at the AGM to vote in favour of terminating the current OC manager for this motion to be passed?

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What process we can follow when the local Brisbane council is the cause of noise issues? All owners in our apartment block have recently received a council letter stating that ongoing works will continue near to our inner city building until the early hours of the morning, with the noisiest works done up until 1 am!