The VIC Strata Magazine September 2022

About the September 2022 edition

The September 2022 edition of The VIC Strata Magazine tackles insurance coverage, legal disputes, financial planning, and emerging regulatory changes for Victorian owners corporations. Insurance articles address EV charger coverage under building policies, separate townhouse insurance in service-only OCs, and the challenge of owners refusing to pay strata insurance, while legal pieces examine developer acquisition of common property and front fence repair responsibility. The edition also covers capital works planning, short-stay behaviour management, subdivision plan misinterpretation costs, and the implications of new embedded network and gas cooking rules for strata.

  • MIMOR helps residents do things by the book – MiMOR 
  • Does our building insurance cover owner installed EV Chargers? – Tyrone Shandiman, Strata Insurance Solutions 
  • Capital works / maintenance plans: getting it right – Sedgwick 
  • Wait now, pay more later – Lannock Strata Finance 
  • Developer purchased our common property for $1 – Phillip Leaman, Tisher Liner FC Law 
  • Is the strata management industry in Australia under-pricing itself on smaller buildings? – Strata Management Consultants 
  • Understanding the short stay reality to reduce bad behaviour – The Knight 
  • Unnecessary spending due to reading the plan of subdivision incorrectly – Chris Irons, Strata Solve 
  • Who is responsible for the cost of repair of the front fence? – Sim Firns, The Knight 
  • Breach notices in a small self managed scheme – Stratabase Holdings 
  • Can a townhouse be insured separately if it is a service-only OC with no common area? – Tyrone Shandiman, Strata Insurance Solutions 
  • Should our front door be fire retardant and stamped with a metal plate? – Chris Chatham, Linkfire 
  • Strata Insurance: One owner will not pay – Stratabase Holdings 
  • Cooking with[out] gas, and new embedded network rules: What does it mean for strata? – SCA (VIC)

September 2022 VIC Strata Magazine Authors

Tyrone Shandiman
Strata Insurance Solutions
Phillip Leaman
Tisher Liner FC Law Pty Ltd
Chris Irons
Strata Solve
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Bluestone OCM
Chris Chatham
Linkfire Pty Ltd

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