The QLD Strata Magazine July 2022

About the July 2022 edition

The July 2022 edition of The QLD Strata Magazine covers building security, sinking fund management, and defect concealment liability in Queensland body corporate schemes. Key topics include hidden building defect liability, sinking fund and maintenance schedule recovery, online noticeboard validity, and fire door draft stopper requirements. The edition also addresses visiting pet application denial transparency, caretaker visitor parking space exclusivity, tree boundary responsibility, shopping trolley car park damage, and unauthorised renovation protection without a by-law.

  • Who pays for the replacement of damaged carpets? – Tyrone Shandiman, Strata Insurance Solutions 
  • MIMOR Conquers Communication Challenges – MiMOR 
  • Making the building as secure as reasonably possible – Chris Irons, Strata Solve 
  • Responsibility for a tree on a lot boundary – William Marquand, Tower Body Corporate 
  • When lot owners hide building defects … who eventually pays? – Chris Irons, Strata Solve 
  • Application for a visiting pet denied! Can we ask why? – Todd Garsden, Mahoneys 
  • Getting the sinking fund and maintenance schedule back on track – Dakota Panetta, Solutions In Engineering 
  • Is an online noticeboard a valid noticeboard? – Frank Higginson, Hynes Legal 
  • Body Corporate member harassed by residents – Chris Irons, Strata Solve 
  • Does the caretaker have exclusive use of visitor parking spaces? – Todd Garsden, Mahoneys 
  • Draft stoppers on fire doors – Stefan Bauer, Fire Matters 
  • Damage from shopping trolleys left in the car park – William Marquand, Tower Body Corporate 
  • Protection for unauthorised renovations when no by-law is in place – Michael Kleinschmidt, Stratum Legal 
  • Strata reform is about people, not buildings – SCA (Qld)

July 2022 QLD Strata Magazine Authors

Tyrone Shandiman
Strata Insurance Solutions
Chris Irons
Strata Solve
William Marquand
Tower Body Corporate
Dakota Panetta
Solutions in Engineering
Frank Higginson
Redchip Strata Law
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Fire Matters

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