About the May 2023 edition
The May 2023 edition of The QLD Strata Magazine covers insurance obligations, new legislative rights, and body corporate accountability in Queensland schemes. Key topics include new laws raising rights questions, the body corporate's PCBU status, solar panel cost savings on common property, and flooded car cost recovery. The edition also addresses CCTV footage circulation rights, wood heater installation denial, insurance replacement valuations, common property power use by residents, and the role of body corporate managers in preventing committee Act breaches.
- Strata Loans: When to Involve a Finance Specialist in Your Project – Jenine Garcia, Lannock Strata Finance
- Do body corporates usually comply with standard warranty clauses? – William Marquand, Tower Body Corporate
- Floorboards damaged by flood water – Todd Garsden, Mahoneys
- New laws pose serious questions about rights – Frank Higginson, Hynes Legal
- Accessing elderly residents' apartments in an emergency – Jake Sharp, MiMOR
- Solar panels - reducing common property area electricity costs – Sarah Price, Altogether Group
- Is the body corporate a PCBU? – Todd Garsden, Mahoneys
- Do we need an insurance broker? – Tyrone Shandiman, Strata Insurance Solutions
- Can a solicitor act for both the caretaker and the body corporate committee? – Frank Higginson, Hynes Legal
- Should the body corporate manager prevent the committee from breaching the Act? – William Marquand, Tower Body Corporate
- Circulating CCTV footage of a lot owner – Chris Irons, Strata Solve
- Which account does the GST refund go into? – Rod Laws, TINWORTH & CO
- Is it reasonable to deny installation of a wood heater? – Chris Irons, Strata Solve
- Insurance replacement valuations – Rawlinsons Cost Management
- Non responsive strata manager? What's their lot load? – William Marquand, Tower Body Corporate
- Recovering cost of a flooded car after heavy rain – Tyrone Shandiman, Strata Insurance Solutions
- Hackathon, reform and the importance of consultation – SCA (QLD)
- Can residents charge household items with common property power? – Chris Irons, Strata Solve
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