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How to combat the issues of smoke drift from balconies and the dropping of cigarette butts into units below is no doubt a familiar and frequent talking point for committee members at owners’ corporation meetings.
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The Owners’ Corporation Act in Victoria will be 10 years old early next year.
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Encouraging vertical communities to innovate
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Tips to get more people at OC meetings
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There are still a large number of multi-storey high rise developments being marketed and sold “off-the-plan” in the Melbourne metropolitan area.
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Owners’ Corporations (OCs) need to observe time limitation periods for bringing a building defect claim.
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Owners’ corporations are a powerful democratic force – if only they knew.
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How to obtain records from your owners’ corporation
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At every annual general meeting, there will be a standard motion on the agenda to renew the policy of insurance for the owners’ corporation (OC).
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Australian employers are starting to offer their employees flexible working solutions to enhance productivity and sustain employee engagement by allowing them to work from a home office.
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For a large number of owners’ corporations at this time of the year and as the holiday season fast approaches, it also signals that it’s time for the end of-year annual general meeting (AGM).
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As developers and urban planners continue to create and build ‘vertical communities’ in the form of large residential buildings, it stands to reason that there is a great need to provide services and amenities.
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Enforcing rules and achieving compliance.
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Being a chairperson, secretary or committee member of an owners’ corporation (OC) can sometimes be a thankless task.
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It has long been an issue for apartment dwellers in Victoria and all around Australia –the common scenario is that a residential unit is let out to a person for a set amount of rent each week; that person then sets out partitions and curtains throughout the apartment, then sub-lets the apartment to groups of (mainly female) students and / or non-English speaking persons.
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One of the more common legal issues that I am asked to advise on by owners corporations is in regard to the removal and replacement of contractors and agents that assist an owners corporation, from building managers and caretakers to owners corporation managers and security companies.
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Two recent decisions in the Supreme Courts of Victoria and NSW should be mandatory reading for all executive committee members of owners corporations in exercising decisions relating to repair and maintenance of common property.
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