At a recent extraordinary general meeting, our scheme passed a motion that states, in effect: If a resident leaves a pot plant on common property without committee permission, and does not remove it after written advice from the committee, the committee may refer the resident to NCAT.
Our Tier 4 owners corporation refuses to establish a maintenance fund. It now faces a large repair and upgrade expense that is four times the annual fees budget. The committee, controlled by three of six owners, is trying to cover the cost by increasing the annual budget over several years, which has already more than doubled quarterly fees in the past three years. This approach charges all owners equally.
I'm a newly self-appointed chairman and secretary in an 8 unit complex.
Our committee members have informal meetings or workshops, even though decisions are made that impact owners. No minutes are taken. There is nothing in the Act or CMS that mentions meetings like these. Should a record of the meetings be kept and minutes distributed to owners?
Can a meeting be called informal if there are observers and a detailed agenda requiring the committee to make decisions (votes) and discuss items affecting owners?
We are a 78 lot scheme under the Standard Format Plan and the Accommodation Module and in the Brisbane City Council (BCC) area. Most of our lots are owner-occupied. Owners who rent their lots have requested permission for short-stay and holiday letting. Under BCC regulations, landlords are required to obtain a permit for short-term letting.
We believe that the Building Manager has been giving the master key to tradies so that they can access unattended units to carry out work. Recently, during pest control at the building, a number of lot owners came home to find unsupervised works in their apartment, that someone has been in the apartment or were in the apartment when a pest controller walked in. In all cases, no notice of the work or request to access the lot had been provided.
My upstairs neighbours have noisy floorboards without acoustic underlay. The previous owners installed the flooring. The new owners are a family who make more noise and have loud children. The owners corporation claims they can't do anything since the current owners didn't install the floor. Who is responsible for addressing this noise problem?