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The Indecisive Committee We’ve all been there. Wading through hours of Committee meetings where decisions that need to be made just don’t get made. Important and often surprisingly unimportant items tabled for weeks, months… Sometimes years! Pretty soon the Business Arising section of the agenda has a list of 25 items! Ugh! Why is that?…
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Strata Titles – Australia’s Least Known Export Product! Strata titles was first introduced in NSW in 1961 to replace a range of apartment ‘ownership’ schemes which arose during the post-war housing crisis in the 1950-60’s, the main one being the ‘company title’ scheme. The NSW strata titles system spread rapidly throughout Australia. Queensland enacted the…
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Electrical Safety Compliance – Switchboard Inspections and Safety Switch Testing The inspection of main switchboards and testing of communal safety switches is something that we too often see has been overlooked by strata building owners. Not only can lack of inspection and testing be a compliance breach, it can also contribute to major safety hazards…
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Visitor Parking – Who is a Visitor? You might wonder why the question of who is a visitor matters, and if you do, you are in the strata minority. The ostensible abuse of visitor car parking privileges is the trigger for an enormous amount of body corporate angst. Interestingly enough, the BCCM Act does not…
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