Question: Hi Leanne, I’m a regular reader of your weekly Strata News and I had a query for you: Does the Owners Corporation have an obligation to provide an Intercom system for the building that it supervises? Generally, the Owners Corporation’s obligations are to repair and maintain the common property rather than upgrade it (though if…
Question: Is the front door common property or the responsibility of the owner? Do lot owners need to seek permission to install deadlocks? As front doors are “fire-doors” for fire safety, the installation of additional deadlocks, peep-holes etc can adversely affect the fire safety of the door and result in the Owners Corporation not being…
Question: The floor in a lot’s kitchen has to be repaired because of concrete cancer. The lot owner now wants the owners corporation to pay for a new kitchen. It sounds like the kitchen is original. Subject to any by-laws applicable to the scheme and any notations on the strata plan, the general position is…
Question: Are there rules concerning the actual time of day when an AGM is held? Though the strata legislation is silent on the point, some general rules do apply. While the timing of the AGM is at the discretion of your strata manager or strata committee, that discretion must be exercised in good faith and…
Question: Some residents in our building use the visitor parking spaces as an additional parking spot. Is it possible to increase levies for these few residents and not all lot owners? Before answering the question on whether such an arrangement would be legal, you would need to ascertain from the development consent for the building…
It’s the law! Owners Corporations are required by law to repair & maintain the common property. The new legislation allows individual lot owners to sue the Owners Corporation and recover any damages suffered by an owner as a result of the Owners Corporation’s failure to properly repair & maintain the common property. Preserving and enhancing…
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