About the October 2025 edition
This October 2025 edition of The VIC Strata Magazine focuses on transparency and accountability, covering insurance disclosure statements, access to ballot results, online pre-votes before an AGM, annual financial statement obligations, and owners being denied voting rights over unauthorised charges. It also works through liability and property questions including towing cars from common property, responding to criminal behaviour by a resident's guest, contractor engagement without quotes or certification, injury liability when a neighbour's contractor trespasses, and who pays when a new owner's balcony leaks into another lot. With insights from Victorian strata lawyers, managers, and building specialists, this edition offers practical guidance for owners corporations navigating governance, risk, and repair disputes.
- Is it usual for an insurance product disclosure statement to include: "we are not independent, impartial, or unbiased"? – Tyrone Shandiman, Strata Insurance Solutions
- Leading the way in strata funding – Lannock Strata Finance
- How to choose the right contractor for concrete spalling remediation – Bruce McKenzie, Sedgwick
- Are online pre-votes before an AGM valid? – Alex Smale, Melbourne Owners Corporation Services
- Access to ballot results, including how each owner voted – Ben Quirk, TOCS
- What options exist when a resident's guest engages in criminal behaviour? – Joel Chamberlain, Horizon Strata Management Group
- Can an OC tow a car if it's parked on common property? – Phillip Leaman, Tisher Liner FC Law
- What is the correct number of roof anchor points? – Sam Hogg, PASG
- Are strata managers required to prepare annual financial statements? – The Knight
- Owners denied voting rights for 'unpaid charges' they never authorised – Alex McCormick, SOCM
- Our OC engages preferred contractors without quotes or proper certification – Julia Moroz, Bugden Allen
- Could an owners corporation be liable if a neighbour's contractor trespasses and is injured? – Tyrone Shandiman, Strata Insurance Solutions
- Who pays for the repairs when a new owner's balcony leaks into another lot? – Leila Idris, Grace Lawyers
- Benefits of having an SCA Member as your Strata Manager – SCA (VIC)
