The QLD Strata Magazine December 2024

About the December 2024 edition

The December 2024 edition of The QLD Strata Magazine covers body corporate ethics, fire safety compliance, and management rights in Queensland strata schemes. Key topics include ethical governance frameworks for owners, fire safety requirements for class 1A buildings, fire door compliance, and the risks of terminating management rights agreements. The edition also addresses short-term rental insurance implications, ageing caretaker performance management, strata committee election procedures, and developer palm tree removal risk assessments.

  • Demanding Ethics: An Owner's Path to a Better Body Corporate – The LookUpStrata Team
  • Compliant invoices: Verifying strata payments – William Marquand, Tower Body Corporate 
  • Landlord insurance or strata insurance? Which one do I claim from? – Tyrone Shandiman, Strata Insurance Solutions 
  • Strata committee elections: A call for fair procedures – Chris Irons, Strata Solve 
  • Terminating a management rights agreement has risks – Hynes Legal 
  • Strata complex struggles with ageing caretaker's performance – Chris Irons, Strata Solve 
  • Bodies corporate are run by those who show up – Frank Higginson, Hynes Legal 
  • Can the BC charge owners for contacting the manager directly? – William Marquand, Tower Body Corporate 
  • Short-term rentals and strata insurance – Todd Garsden, Mahoneys 
  • 9 Things you should do to ready your strata businesses for sale – Strata Business Brokers 
  • Fire safety for class 1A buildings – Stefan Bauer, Fire Matters 
  • Fire door compliance: How can I ensure my building's fire doors are compliant? – Stefan Bauer, Fire Matters 
  • An abandoned vehicle and the caretaker's role in tenant information disclosure – Frank Higginson, Hynes Legal 
  • Risk assessment and removal of the developer's palm trees – Dean Potgieter, Seymour Consultants 
  • Strata manager charges for a VOCM – William Marquand, Tower Body Corporate

December 2024 QLD Strata Magazine Authors

William Marquand
Tower Body Corporate
Tyrone Shandiman
Strata Insurance Solutions
Chris Irons
Strata Solve
Frank Higginson
Redchip Strata Law
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Fire Matters
Dean Potgieter
Seymour Consultants

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