About the July 2024 edition
The July 2024 edition of The VIC Strata Magazine addresses a wide spectrum of insurance, legal, and governance challenges for Victorian owners corporations. Insurance topics include e-bike fire liability, lost rent claims, insurance valuation methods, and whether owners corporations can restrict owners from making claims. Governance and legal articles tackle committee compensation, reactivating inactive owners corporations, common property access disputes, strata manager conflicts of interest, and strategies for refreshing entrenched committee membership.
- Planning Major Works – What gets you the best return? – Lannock Strata Finance
- Is the owner responsible for the damage if an unauthorised e-bike causes a fire? – Sean Callan, Sedgwick
- Is the Multiplier just based on the management fees? – Strata Business Brokers
- Should committee members be compensated for their valuable contributions? – Fabienne Loncar, Moray & Agnew Lawyers
- Can we claim partial lost rent from the strata insurance? – Tyrone Shandiman, Strata Insurance Solutions
- If there's a leak from upstairs, does the owners corporation get involved? – Phillip Leaman, Tisher Liner FC Law
- How do we reactivate our inactive owners corporation? – Alex Smale, Melbourne Owners Corporation Services
- Can the owners corporation prevent owners from making a claim? – Tyrone Shandiman, Strata Insurance Solutions
- Can I force the owners corporation to fix the heat issue in my apartment? – Alex Smale, Melbourne Owners Corporation Services
- Can owners block access to the common property? – Joel Chamberlain, Horizon Strata Management Group
- Strata managers, proxies and conflicts of interest – Callum Wilson, The Strata Shepherd
- Should we use a quantity surveyor or certified practising valuer for our insurance valuation? – Rawand Kaka, MBCM Strata Specialists
- Investigations into building wide issues like leaks from flexi hoses – Phillip Leaman, Tisher Liner FC Law
- The same members are on the committee year after year. How do we break this cycle? – Callum Wilson, The Strata Shepherd
- Benefits of your Strata Manager being an SCA Member – Strata Community Association (VIC)
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