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 23, 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 | 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...
by Joe | Aug 28, 2020 | Adjudicators Orders
If a Body Corporate believes that an owner or occupant is breaching the by laws, the Body Corporate have an obligation under the Body Corporate and Community Management Legislation to enforce the by laws. We have touched on this subject in various other articles,...
