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NSW: Q&A Strata visitor car parking. When does ‘visitor’ become ‘resident’?

 
Leanne Habib, Premium Strata
Question: One of our residents has a very regular visitor who is there most week nights and sometimes all weekend. When policing strata visitor car parking, when does a regular visitor become a resident?
 
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QLD: Q&A What about good old body corp community?

QLD: Q&A What about good old body corp community?

 
Frank Higginson, Hynes Legal 
Question: What happened to body corp community? I am frustrated with my committee’s apathy. The common property is not maintained and there is no communication. As an owner, how can I address these issues?

 
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SA: Q&A No Officers of the Strata Corporation at our Small Scheme

 
Tony Johnson, Horner Management
Question: Our Strata Corporation positions of secretary, presiding officer and treasurer have been held by the same lot owner. They have now resigned and no-one else is able to fill the roles.
 
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NSW: Q&A Are non-structural wall cracks the responsibility of owners corporation?

NSW: Q&A Are non-structural wall cracks the responsibility of owners corporation?

 
Rod Smith, The Strata Collective
Question: A lot owner's internal walls have non-structural cracking from slight building settlement. Where does the responsibility of owners corporation fall to repair the walls? Are they responsible at all?

 
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 Q&A Air conditioning units on balconies and the impossible bylaw!

QLD: Q&A Air conditioning units on balconies and the impossible bylaw!

 
Frank Higginson, Hynes Legal 
Question: The body corporate have introduced a by-law which, due to the imposed specifications, makes it almost impossible to install air conditioning units on balconies. How can we get around the unreasonable by-law?

 
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NSW: Q&A Strata approval for renovations which include waterproofing

NSW: Q&A Strata approval for renovations which include waterproofing

 
Leanne Habib, Premium Strata
Question: I'm concerned about the correct process of strata approval for renovations in our scheme. Renos involving waterproofing aren't being considered a major work under the new legislation, and therefore not being considered by the Owners Corporation as a special resolution.
 
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NSW: Short Term Lettings and Airbnb are hot topics in strata

NSW: Short Term Lettings and Airbnb are hot topics in strata

 
Adrian Mueller, JS Mueller & Co
This short paper explains why most owners corporations in NSW are currently able to make by-laws that prohibit unlawful short term accommodation in their strata schemes. The paper does this by reviewing recent statements made by NSW Fair Trading and NCAT about this topic and considers some cases decided in other jurisdictions about short term letting by-laws which have gained recent media attention.
 
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NSW: Two Lot Schemes

NSW: Two Lot Schemes

 
Bannermans Lawyers.
Two lot strata schemes are fairly common, but they present special challenges to owners. It is much more likely that the lot owners will occupy separate detached dwellings, limiting the common property and having implications for issues such as insurance, maintenance, levies and funds.
 
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NSW: Q&A Water damage on my ceiling from the apartment upstairs

 
 Leanne Habib, Premium Strata
Question: Who is responsible for the water damage on my ceiling and the white goods in the kitchen caused by the apartment upstairs? Their laundry upstairs is in a cupboard and is not plumbed in properly. This has flooded my kitchen numerous times.

 
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NSW: Have Your Say

A message from Karen Stiles, OCN:

State Member for Sydney, Alex Greenwich, has launched a petition to have short term letting debated in NSW parliament.  He needs 10,000 signatures.  They must be original signatures so people need to print, sign, and mail/drop off to his office. 
 
We urge NSW LookUpStrata readers to sign, put up in their lobbies, and share with their committees and other lot owners.

Independent MP Alex GreenwichThere has been a strong supportive response to my petition calling for owners corporations the authority to control short term letting in their building, including to place limits beyond state controls or to ban the practice outright. If you support this approach, please sign and collect signatures. Print petition HERE.

Quick NSW Q&A

We sometimes receive interesting questions into the site which aren't quite long enough to create into a post. We thought we'd share some here. We recently received the following question:
Q: Does the installation of a speed hump require a general meeting to approve the speed hump?
Leanne Habib, Premium Strata replied: 
A: Yes, because it is work on the common property (which erects a structure on or alters the common property) see Section 108(2) of the SSMA 2015.

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