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QLD: Get Ready for New Laws

Join us @ 2 pm AEST - Thursday 25 Feb 2021

Queensland's new Regulation Modules are coming into effect soon... Here is your last chance to talk about what they all mean. Join Frank, Chris (Hynes Legal) and Nikki (LookUpStrata) this Thursday for a special, last-minute primer on the new Modules. You can expect an overview of the big issues and some practical, best-practice tips on how you can navigate your way through the new legislative landscape from 1 March.
QLD: Register For the New Laws Webinar Now

VIC Subscribers

Stand by for our 1st 2021 edition of THE VIC Strata Magazine this Fri 26 Feb.
The edition is packed full of unique VIC content!
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Latest Articles From the LookUpStrata Blog
NSW Who Pays the Fire and Rescue Call Out Fee?

NSW: Our tenant set off the common property fire alarm. The fire services attended and charged a $1,760 call out fee. Are we expected to pay?



Carlo Fini,
Lewis & Charles Lawyers
QLD Body corporate spending limits - What are they and when do they apply?

QLD Q: We are about to repair our driveway for cracks and leaks to the underground car park. We are looking at carrying out the repair in three stages. Can this be treated as three seperate expenses or is this in breach of the regulations?

Chris Irons, Hynes Legal 
Point Facility Solutions
WA Strata Insurance for common driveway

WA Q: In a group of 3 villas, do we need to have a strata committee? Do we need shared strata community insurance?

Luke Downie,
Realmark
NSW Apartment renovations without approval. Oops ... What do we do now?

NSW Q: Our neighbour drilled into our balcony to install an awning shade. What do we do now? Who is responsible if there is future damage due to the installation?

Leanne Habib, Premium Strata
Tower Body Corporate
ACT Owners Corporation Executive Committee

ACT Q: The committee has a number of major issues that need to be resolved but the secretary is trying to filter all information. Is this a breach of the UTMA Code of Conduct?

Michael Smythe,
Civium Communities
QLD Who Do We Pursue for Building Faults in our Strata Scheme?

QLD Q: What warranty is afforded bodies corporate/owners of apartments in new build residential HIGH RISE complexes in Queensland?

Dean Potgieter, Seymour Consultants
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Savil Group
QLD: Getting Ready for 1 March - Sweat the small stuff

QLD: Getting Ready for 1 March - Sweat the small stuff



William Marquand,
Tower Body Corporate
NSW Tips and Traps for Strata Managers when Completing and Executing Change of By-Law Documents

NSW: Tips and Traps for Strata Managers when Completing and Executing Change of By-Law Documents

Michela Alesse & Allison Benson,
Kerin Benson Lawyers
Strata Insurance Solutions

Last Edition's Star Articles
Body Corporate Audits and Tax

QLD: If a Body Corporate has never had an income, do they need to lodge a tax return every year to declare no income or would a single notice informing there will never be an income suffice?

William Marquand, Tower Body Corporate
NSW ByLaw Review

NSW Q: Can a majority Executive Committee vote to decide to maintain and comply with their pre-existing 2015 Strata By-laws?


David Bannerman,
Bannermans Lawyers

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New South Wales

Have Your Say

QLD: Second-Hand Cigarette Smoke Survey

Been exposed to your neighbours’ second-hand cigarette smoke in your apartment complex? Cancer Council Qld wants to hear from you!
Complete our short survey. Your answers will help Cancer Council take action and advocate for Queenslanders.
Survey open until 28 March 2021

NAT: LookUpStrata and HFM Asset Management
Submit Your National NABERS Offer Questions

LookUpStrata will be conducting a Q&A video session about the National fee free NABERS ratings offer in an upcoming video with Alex Sejournee, HFM Asset Management. We invite our national audience to submit questions about the NABERS fee free Offer and we will address as many as possible during the video. This video, packed full of NABERS answers to your questions, will be launched in the March edition of The WA Strata Magazine and shared to our national audience in the following Newsletter, towards the end of March.
Read more about it here: NAT: Why Residential Buildings Should Take Advantage of Fee-Free NABERS?

SCA (WA) - Calling all Strata Managers and lot owners!

SCA (WA) is asking for your help to spend a few minutes filling out our survey to let us know how we can make our educational events the best they can be:
Submissions close 2 Mar 2021

NSW Government - Help shape the future of strata laws in NSW

More than one million people in NSW are being invited to have their say on how laws can be changed to improve the experience of the growing number of people living and working in strata communities.
Read more about it here: Help shape the future of strata laws
Submissions close 7 March 2021

WA Apartment Advocacy - Awards for Council of Owners

The WAAA has launched a new awards programme which seeks nominations from Council of Owners.  The awards which opened on 1 February and closes on 31 March is calling for nominations from Council of Owners to demonstrate best practice within Strata Companies. Good luck!
Enter due: 31 March. Awards Presentation Night: 21 May
To nominate your COO or find out more click here

**Last Chance** NSW Government and SCA (NSW) - Improving consumer confidence in residential strata buildings

The NSW Government are working with SCA (NSW) to collect information from NSW Strata Managers about Class 2 residential buildings to understand the scale & nature of major defects.
This is part of a strategy to increase consumer confidence & reduce the burden defects have on Strata Managers & occupants of apartments in NSW.
Submissions close 28 February 2021

Upcoming Events:
New South Wales

Your Strata Property: How to Use By-Laws to Combat Bad Behaviour in Apartments
WEBINAR: 25 Feb, 12 pm AEDT

LookUpStrata: Pets in Strata Q&A
WEBINAR: 12 Mar, 10 am AEDT
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Upcoming Events:
Queensland

Hynes Legal and LookUpStrata: Getting Ready For New Laws: A Last Minute Primer
WEBINAR: 25 Feb, 2 pm AEST
Western Australia

SCA (WA): Compliance Series 2: All Things Fire, Health and Safety
BENTLY: 26 Feb, 3 - 5:30 pm AWST
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