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NSW Strata Webinars

Regularly, LookUpStrata partners with industry leaders to discuss topics of interest for our NSW audience of lot owners, strata industry professionals and the broader NSW community. These strata webinars usually feature Q&A sessions where the panelist/s answer NSW questions that have been submitted by our audience either leading up to or during the session.

NSW: Strata Managing Agents – Assisting committees through difficult times | Leanne Habib from Premium Strata – June 2022

Leanne Habib from Premium Strata and Nikki Jovicic from LookUpStrata for a webinar about how you can get the most out of your Strata Manager. Are you fully accessing your strata manager’s knowledge and expertise to gain the most assistance when times get tough? Good Strata Managing Agents allow you access to their extensive practices and procedures, systems, knowledge, and expertise to assist committees through difficult times.

During the webinar, Leanne spoke about:

  • The difference between choice and obligation
  • The steps involved in tackling a large problem, including practical examples
  • The importance of having the strata manager and committee on the same team with goals aligned
  • How important it is to have a strata manager with strong leadership skills
  • Tips on how to get a large decision across the line (spoiler – it’s to do with transparent communication)

Links to resources mentions during the session:

  • NSW: Ask Us Anything with Leanne Habib from Premium Strata [Webinar Recording]
  • The upcoming Nat session on Leaky Buildings with James McIntosh and Bruce McKenzie from Sedgwick – 7 July, 10 AM AEST: Waterproofing and Water ingress specific to strata buildings – Leaky Building trends and common causes

Download the slide pack from today’s presentation here: Strata Managing Agents: Assisting committees through difficult times.

Leanne Habib
Premium Strata
E: [email protected]
P: 02 9281 6440

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NSW: Interpreting Your Strata Plan | Rod Smith from The Strata Collective – May 2022

Rod Smith from The Strata Collective joined Nikki Jovicic from LookUpStrata for a webinar about how to interpret your strata plan and recognise what is lot property and what is common property.

During the webinar, Rod spoke about:

  • Key Legislations involving Strata Schemes
  • Lot vs Common Property
  • Understanding key terms on a Strata
  • Plan Some Case Studies

This webinar session is an important reference tool for NSW lot owners and the strata industry.

Links to resources mentions during the session:

  • NSW: High Performing Strata Committees with Rod Smith, The Strata Collective [Webinar Recording]
  • Common property memorandum
  • The Strata Collective: What Is Strata Walk through Video
  • Pre 1974 Schemes and the Centre Line Rule
  • Rod’s articles on The Strata Collective website

Download the slide pack from today’s presentation here: Reading a Strata Plan.

Rod Smith
The Strata Collective
E: [email protected]
P: 02 9879 3547

NSW + ACT: Helping lot owners deal with strata building defects + Q&A | Christopher Kerin from Kerin Benson Lawyers – March 2022

5 stages of defects

Christopher Kerin from Kerin Benson Lawyers joined Nikki Jovicic from LookUpStrata for a webinar about lot owner reactions to building defects in NSW and the ACT.

During the webinar, Chris spoke about:

  • 5 stages of defects
  • how these reactions influence a building’s success when negotiating remediation of defects
  • the difference between an apartment block that responds in a constructive way and an apartment block that is inert or incapable of responding to defects

Chris’s presentation triggered an interesting discussion driven by comments within the session chat. This session is a very different format from our usual webinars and Chris introduces ideas you probably have not heard before!

Christopher Kerin
Kerin Benson Lawyers
E: [email protected]
P: 02 8706 7060

NSW: What to Look for in a Fire Contractor… aside from price! + Q&A | Rob Broadhead from 2020 Fire Protection – March 2022

Making the Right Decision When Choosing a Fire Contractor

Rob Broadhead from 2020 Fire Protection joined Nikki Jovicic from LookUpStrata for webinar about the importance of choosing a fire contractor you can trust.

During the webinar, Rob spoke about:

  • The first step in choosing a fire contractor is getting confirmation that they are going to follow AS1851-2012 in-full.
  • If a contractor’s prices are cheaper than the others, make sure they aren’t “cherry picking” from the requirements of AS1851-2012. The person(s) losing out is YOU! Be sure the systems protecting you continue to work reliably to keep your building’s residents safe?
  • Number 1 take away – get written confirmation that the quote you are reading includes ALL testing to AS1851-2012.

After the session, Rob responded to our audience’s questions about choosing a fire contractor plus other more general fire safety questions.

The presentation slides accompanying the session can be accessed via this link.

Rob Broadhead
2020 Fire Protection
E: [email protected]
P: 1300 340 210

NSW & QLD: Embedded Energy Networks for Owners Corporations and Bodies Corporate Webinar + Q&A | Drew McKillican from Altogether Group – February 2022

The importance of knowing your obligations with Embedded Energy Networks

Drew McKillican from Altogether Group joined Nikki Jovicic from LookUpStrata for a webinar on NSW and QLD Embedded Energy Networks. In this webinar, Drew explained the key differences between having a billing agent manage your embedded network under an exemption scheme versus an authorised energy retailer and why this is important.

During the webinar, Drew spoke about:

  • How customer pricing works and what you’re really paying for.
  • The advantages the owners corporation/body corporate and the residents should be experiencing from their embedded network.
  • How to work out whether you’re paying too much for your energy.
  • Whether your owners corporation/body corporate could be exposing themselves to risks and how to mitigate those risks by passing responsibility back to the supplier. 
  • How if you are in a building with an embedded network and you are NOT getting a better deal than you could get if you were to leave the network, something is fundamentally wrong with the arrangement.
  • How owners corporations/bodies corporate (and their residents) have more power over your embedded network arrangements than you may think! 
  • How the costs structures of embedded networks are such that you should almost never be paying more and you should be paying significantly less.
  • Plus Much More…

The presentation slides accompanying the session can be accessed via this link.

Drew McKillican
Altogether Group
E: [email protected]
P: 1300 806 806

NSW Strata Webinars | 2021

NSW: Annual Strata Audits and Financial Statements Webinar + Q&A | Presented in Conjunction with OCN, featuring Rod Laws and Caren Chen, Tinworth & Co – October 2021

As well as discussing what you need to know about auditing strata scheme annual accounts and financial statements, Rod and Caren also answered many questions. Just some of the information touched on:

  • Information about auditor appointment, audit scope and process
  • Trust Account Audit VS Strata Financial Audit
  • Strata audit myths – the misconceptions owners commonly make
  • Plus Much More…

As always, the presentation is followed by a short Q&A session where the panel responded to some very interesting questions submitted by our audience on the topic, such as:

  • What triggers an audit?
  • The value of an annual audit when you have a diligent and hands-on Treasurer
  • Whether an auditor provides any proactive mitigation against the risk of strata manager fraud
  • Whether the committee can have a credit card for the trust account

The presentation accompanying the session can be accessed via this link.

Tinworth & Co
E: [email protected]
P: 02 9922 3660

OCN Membership

Find out about becoming an OCN Member here:

Owners Corporation Network of Australia Ltd
E: [email protected]
P: 02 8197 9919

NSW: High Performing Strata Committees | Rod Smith, The Strata Collective – August 2021

In August 2021, Rod Smith from The Strata Collective joined us for a webinar on High Performing Strata Committees. His session contained a presentation that includes lots of really great information, plus a Sample Agenda and Sample Minutes. You can DOWNLOAD THE PRESENTATION here: High Performing Strata Committees.

During the same session, one of our regular NSW viewers mentioned their building used a Management Handbook and found it very useful. They have generously offered to share the resource with our audience and you can download it here: Management Handbook.

Both of these resources were shared with the list of Webinar Registrations from the session shortly after the event (which is why it is a good reason to attend our sessions) however, we are making these resources available to our broader audience now. Rod Smith can be contacted here:

Rod Smith
The Strata Collective
E: [email protected]
P: 02 9879 3547

NSW: Ask Us Anything Strata Webinar | Leanne Habib, Premium Strata – June 2021

NSW: Pets In Strata Q&A | Adrian Mueller, JS Mueller & Co Lawyers

NSW Strata Webinars | 2020

NSW: Ask Us Anything (Strata) Q&A | Rod Smith, The Strata Collective

NAT: Ask Us Anything Strata Insurance | Tyrone Shandiman, Strata Insurance Solutions

NAT: Stratabox Demo | Paul Chervot, StrataBox


NSW Strata Webinars | 2016

NSW: Top 5 Ways the New Strata Reforms will Impact Your Life | Adrian Mueller, JS Mueller & Co Lawyers

NSW: Strata Window Safety | Peter Berney, Solutions In Engineering


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