Strata Chat with Joey

So I’ve you are on the receiving end of calls or emails from the Committee or your fellow owners as you to vote Yes or No to a particular motion coming up at a meeting, what can you do and what options are open to you?

Have been getting a lot of quotes from fire contractors for one scheme and have lost a bit of faith that they are being honest with us. Tried to get a second opinion but not having much success. Learning new things though.

I have to celebrate the wins when they happen. Working for a larger scheme with a ratbag tenant and I’ve been working with an excellent real estate agent who after about six weeks of breaches and a bylaw contravention from us, was able to issue the tenant a notice to leave. They moved out this week and the Committee are really happy. I’m counting that as a win.

Before your committee races out to spend $30k fixing a retaining wall stop and ask: do we need a surveyor? Do we need a structural engineer? Who owns that retaining wall and what do we need to do?

Quick Cladding update on questions being asked by committees and current trends.

Sometimes it is not worth the cost and time paying a body corporate manager to chase for a warranty claim. Cost benefit analysis is important. So is looking at the warranty documents handed over to check what is covered.

I know your building might be made of brick but trust me when I say termites don’t read your building plans, they don’t check with Council, if they can get to it and eat it- they will. Get a report done, protect your asset.

Today I talk about lessons learned from the EGM we had to have. A body corporate committee trimmed $400 off their admin budget only to spend it on the EGM. Had the committee members responded to the draft budget or attended the budget committee meeting, they could have saved themselves the trouble.

Quick discussion about lessons learned from an RPEQ Fire Engineer regarding the cladding debacle.

We now have compliance dates! The QBCC website is live and it’s up to bodies corporate to check their certificate of classification and if they are a Class 2-9 building, of type A or B construction and have been built with cladding or had cladding altered after January 1994 but before October 2018 then get that building registered with the QBCC,