by Joe | Mar 30, 2021 | Adjudicators Orders
As a Strata Community Manager, one of the most regular application forms received from owners, occupants or property managers is for the keeping of a pet within a lot. This can then also flow down into complaints received if the animal is not being kept within the...
by Joe | Feb 26, 2021 | Adjudicators Orders
What constitutes as emergency expenditure? Under section 243a of the body corporate and community management act 1997 it states; example of emergency circumstances – a burst water pipe the repair or replacement of which exceeds the body corporate committee’s...
by Joe | Jan 29, 2021 | Adjudicators Orders
More and more, when reviewing Adjudicators orders, we are seeing a trend of requests for motions to be invalidated is upheld – on the basis that the motions were not valid in accordance with the legislation. In November 2017, we wrote an article around how motions...
by Joe | Dec 20, 2020 | Adjudicators Orders
If maintenance work is above the Committee Spending Limit, set at $200.00 x the number of lots unless this has been changed at a General Meeting, and is required to be included as a motion at a General Meeting, whether Annual General Meeting (AGM) or Extraordinary...
by Joe | Nov 25, 2020 | Adjudicators Orders
In many of the adjudicator’s orders that we have reviewed outcomes from Annual General Meetings, Committee Meetings or VOCM’s have been overturned on the basis that the decisions made were unreasonable and these orders have generally been sought by Lot Owners. Now...
by Joe | Sep 25, 2020 | Adjudicators Orders
It is important that when a Body Corporate is proposing a motion for work to be done, at a general meeting, that consideration is given to the following: are the works involved “maintenance” or are they “improvements” to the common property; andwhat is the cost of the...
