To ensure we are proactively preventing water damage in our building, who is accountable for the routine inspection and upkeep of plumbing components like taps and flexi-hoses within each lot? What further action could the committee consider?
We live in a retirement village with 170 lots comprising four stages. It is a layered scheme with four body corporate committees (one for each stage) and a principal body corporate (PBC). The PBC is one member (chairperson) from each stage. The stage committees seem rather irrelevant, as the PBC makes all the decisions. Until I brought it up, the PBC wasn't distributing minutes to the stage committees. I find it strange that the PBC (4 people) makes all decisions involving a large sum of owners' levies.
A resident in our building has approval from the body corporate to install a car stacker in one of their car spaces in the underground garage. The body corporate states that, because the total cost is less than $3000, it does not need to go to an EGM.
What does the total cost include? Does it include the engineering report, the cost to purchase and the cost to install?
I am a resident strata unit owner and general committee member in six lot building in Sydney. Do we need to approval from the strata committee and a by-law to replace our gas freestanding stove/cooktop with a similar electricity powered stove/cooktop?
Are strata management companies legally required to engage a professional for a WHS report generated by default? Is the strata management company required to provide comparable quotes, consultation and lot owner approval?
Lot owners in our strata scheme asked our strata company not to arrange WHS reports without approval, and the strata company arranged the same report again, ignoring instructions. What can we do?
If you are an owner at an AGM meeting, are you allowed to record the proceedings at the meeting? At the last AGM meeting, the strata management said that only they or the strata company were allowed to record the meeting.
Our strata manager has notified all occupants that they are doing a key audit. If each owner has not responded to the request for key information by a certain date, the strata manager will deactivate the key, thus locking the occupant out of their apartment. Is the strata manager lawfully entitled to cancel an owner's access to their home under those circumstances?
I have just read that the NSW strata watchdog seeks power to enter apartment buildings without a warrant and fine owners if common property is not maintained. If the law is passed, will it apply to a community association owner as well?
I'm a committee member of an apartment complex on the Gold Coast. A resident has parked their unregistered vehicle in their nominated car park.
Through our building manager, we asked for the car to be registered or removed. Although the owner said his son would remove the vehicle within 2 weeks, it is still there 4 weeks later. If the tenant resists removing the vehicle, is leaving an unregistered vehicle in their nominated car park legal? A few of our committee members are advocating for towing the vehicle.