I have a Committee that can not agree to pay a contractor and following a recent vote change the majority Committee now want to allow payment. It’s not straight forward as I can’t just authorise payment as a body corporate manager. In today’s episode I talk about how I will manage the situation moving forward.

A Committee member who was a bit of a handful has passed on. I feel conflicted because we didn’t always agree and projects at the scheme were not completed. Today I talk about the paperwork side of death and your body corporate. We are always the last to know.

Sometimes as a body corporate manager we will fail to meet committee expectations and they will press the owners to sack us. It’s a fact of life that I cannot please everyone. When a scheme exercises their right to go elsewhere my job is to work with them to ensure a smooth transfer of their records to the new company.

I have a scheme full of older ladies very keen not to spend any money on the place and their fire compliance was woeful until the most recent AGM where they finally agreed to get their fire doors tested and appoint a fire contractor.

As we approach the end of Stage 1 for Cladding compliance it turns out the QBCC has very unhelpfully written to some owners directly, causing alarm and concern. Doing the best we can to manage that but it’s not easy when owners often don’t read what has been sent to them at first instance.

How I usually prepare a draft sinking fund budget where there is no sinking fund forecast or it is completely out of date.

Sometimes individual Committee members will disagree with each other and it’s not always a bad thing. If Committee members can remain respectful and reasonable in their dealing with each other it can mean outside the box solutions are uncovered.

A scheme I manage was presented with a sewer pipe issue and two contractors with different points of view on how to deal with the issues. These are both good firms with experience and so I called both to get an explanation on the difference between relining a sewer pipe as opposed to replacing it.

A quick overview of what a WH&S report covers and why a body corporate would consider getting one to protect itself.

I’ve previously talked about secret commissions a body corporate manager might be taking and today I wanted to talk about the types of secret commissions a caretaker might take.