About the May 2025 edition
The May 2025 edition of The QLD Strata Magazine examines fire safety inspections, EV charging infrastructure, and committee decision-making processes in Queensland body corporate schemes. Key topics include annual fire-rated door inspections, annual occupier statement liability risks, common property power access for EV visitor charging, and caretaker fee obligations during natural disaster closures. The edition also covers sinking fund reimbursement from long-term agreement income, vote counting on amended motions, abandoned goods management, and strategies for owners to get action from divided committees.
- Do we approve the proposed budget at a VOC or the AGM? – William Marquand, Tower Body Corporate
- Sinking fund reimbursement for loan repayments funded by long-term agreement income – Jason Triplett, Lannock Strata Finance
- Can our self-managed strata get a commission rebate from the insurance broker? – Tyrone Shandiman, Strata Insurance Solutions
- Incidence of pedestal paving hiding water issues – Bruce McKenzie, Sedgwick
- Always give the committee a decision to make – Chris Irons, Strata Solve
- Overcoming client objections: Insights from QIA Group's inspectors for Strata Managers – QIA Group
- Common property power for visitor EV charging – Frank Higginson, Hynes Legal
- An owner will not be a visitor, even when they do not occupy their lot at the scheme – Connor Mahoney, Mahoneys
- Someone's made an offer to buy my strata management business. What do I do? – Strata Business Brokers
- Counting votes on an amended motion – Todd Garsden, Mahoneys
- Do we need to appoint a lawyer to apply to the BCCM? – Chris Irons, Strata Solve
- Ensuring fire-rated entry doors undergo annual inspections – Stefan Bauer, Fire Matters
- Annual occupier statements: Are you signing a liability risk? – Stefan Bauer, Fire Matters
- What can we do about abandoned goods such as bicycles? – Karen Thompson, Vision Strata
- Do we have to pay the caretaker fees when Cyclone Alfred has closed our resort? – Brendan Pitman, Grace Lawyers
- Ignored leaks and a divided committee: How owners can get action – William Marquand, Tower Body Corporate
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