Question: Can a Strata Committee make changes to a 10 Year Capital Works Plan that has been voted on and approved by the Lot Owners at an AGM? At our AGM, the 10 year maintenance plan, along with the details of how it will be implemented and the annual projects listed in chronological sequence…
Question: Can an EGM be called to reverse the decision of a majority at an AGM? The owners corporation by a majority vote accepted the proposed strata levies at our AGM. Levies supported by appropriate budgets, explanations and Capital Works Funding Plan. A group of dissatisfied owners (just enough to make the 25% required for…
Question: Our Strata Manager refuses to show lot owners the trust fund. Are they obligated to show us? We suspect the Strata Manager of mishandling the finances. Our strata manager has been with us less than 1 year and we found out that the management agreement contract is signed for 3 years by 2…
A LookUpStrata reader, who recently moved into a unit, wanted to know how he could get an entrenched and highly resistant executive committee to acknowledge their obligations under the new legislation, to have a 10 year plan, have it professionally costed and take immediate steps to raise the required funds to support it as well…
We provided another response to a LookUpStrata readers question. The reader recently moved into a strata building, and wanted to know how to go about organising a roof repair with limited funds available in the sinking fund. In summary, the roof is common property and as such a repair should be requested by the Executive Committee and…
We have just published a new article in which we provide some more details around strata levies (or strata fees) and strata management fees. There are a number of ways in which a building can be ‘creative’ in reducing the levies it needs to raise. This article highlights the need to do your homework before…
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