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Welcome to your Wednesday Edition of Strata Life!
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Latest Articles From the LookUpStrata Blog
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Karina Heinz,
Progressive Strata Services
Question: We are having difficulty getting services fixed in our older small unit block. We also have no strata meetings and the same 2 people have been on the committee for years.
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Andrew Chambers,
Chambers Franklyn Strata Management
Question: Can you please tell me if the new WA strata laws are going to limit the number of proxy votes that can be harvested by one person?
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Rob Honeycombe,
Bees Nees City Realty
We know it’s easier to let others worry about the body corp fees. But doing that will cost you money. Savings are there for buildings with owners who get involved.
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Steve Jovcevski, Mozo
When it comes to addressing faults, strata plays an important role and will be a key point of contact for all apartment owners. Here’s how to effectively make use of them if you’re staring down any problems.
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The Real Estate Conversation
This initiative, jointly co-ordinated by our friends at Australian Apartment Advocacy (AAA) and Mirvac will provide three groups of people the opportunity to sample an apartment lifestyle – no strings attached - from November this year.
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Christian Tietz, UNSW
With space at a premium, robotic furniture can transform a room in seconds. How will this affect our sense of belonging and feeling at home, when everything can change with a voice command?
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Last Edition's Star Articles
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Colin Grace,
Grace Lawyers
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Neil Fitzpatrick,
VIC Committee Member
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NSW: Remedial Waterproofing & Building Specialists
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QLD: BODY CORPORATE LAWYERS… EXCLUSIVELY
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NAT: Impact to households who are living in apartments with flammable cladding
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Are you an owner in a building affected by combustible cladding? RMIT would like to invite you to participate in the ‘‘At what cost? Cladding concerns for owners" research project. They are interested in learning more about scale of the problems owners of property affected by combustible cladding face day to day across Australia, particularly those living in apartments.
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QLD: Information Regarding Car Stackers
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We have been approached by City of Gold Coast to help provide information about car stackers/car lifts in residential developments. Can you assist?
- Are there specific set body corporate fees/rates for the maintenance of mechanical parking systems is multi-unit developments?
- Do body corporate rates differ from the norm when cars stackers are part of these developments?
- What problems or issues have arisen regarding the management of cars stackers in multi-unit developments?
If you can help, please email us your comment.
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WA: Proposed Regulations Now Available for Comment!
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Landgate is seeking feedback on the proposed regulations, prior to finalising for delivery to Parliament. The proposed regulations are now available here for you to view and comment on until 30 September 2019. For more information about providing feedback, visit this page.
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VIC: Better Apartments in Neighbourhoods **Last Chance**
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You are invited to provide feedback on the proposed external amenity standards for apartment developments. Submissions welcome until 27 Sept 2019.
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QLD: BCCM Regulations - Consultation on Draft Legislation
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The community and stakeholders are invited to have their say on consultation drafts of new regulations to support the Body Corporate and Community Management Act 1997. Draft regulations, and information about the reforms included in the new regulations and how you can have your say can be found at the Department of Justice and Attorney-General community consultation website page.
Consultation for all draft regulations closes 18 October 2019.
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QLD: Combustible Cladding Checklist Part 3
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Identified building owners have until the 31 October to ensure that they have completed the first step in Part 3 of the three-part Safer Buildings Combustible Cladding Checklist. This involves engaging a fire engineer and registering their details on the combustible cladding checklist. You can find out more about the Safer Buildings Audit, including deadline extensions and important dates here.
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