Does a strata committee have the power to make decisions on behalf of an owners corporation?
Should you save yourselves a vote next time a clause in a by-law or a condition in an agreement refers to the approval of the owners corporation?
To vote or not to vote read on to find out Strata Voting and Meetings
For strata legal or levy collection advice please contact us here or call 02 9562 1266, we’re happy to assist.
An NCAT decision allowing a lot owner to keep unauthorised renovations was recently overturned by the Supreme Court.
In doing so, the Court confirmed that an owners corporation must act unreasonably before NCAT should overturn a decision of an owners corporation not to allow an owner to keep unauthorised alterations to common property.
Read on to find out why Supreme Court Quashes NCAT Decision to Allow Unauthorised Works
For strata legal or levy collection advice please contact us here or call 02 9562 1266, we’re happy to assist.
In a recent case a residential apartment building in Rhodes, Sydney claimed damages against Walker Group Constructions, inferring they had breached statutory warranties.
However, after a five day hearing, the referee came to this surprising conclusion: Were Statutory Warranties Breached?
For NSW strata legal or levy collection advice please contact us here or call 02 9562 1266, we’re happy to assist.
The Supreme Court has ordered an owners corporation suing its former lawyers to give security for the costs the lawyers will incur defending the case and has halted the case until the owners corporation does so.
In Court cases, the loser is normally ordered to pay most of the winner’s costs. But what happens if the eventual winner is fearful that the loser will not be able to pay its costs?
Is there anything the winner can do to halt the case before it incurs substantial costs fighting the case?
This decision is a game changer. Read on to find out why… Owners Corporation Security Costs for Building Defects
For strata legal or levy collection advice please contact us here or call 02 9562 1266, we’re happy to assist.
Did you know that the information an owners corporation has about their owners can actually make it much simpler for us to act more effectively in recovering strata levies?
To assist you with the details that can help us, the team at JS Mueller & Co has developed a handy list of items for consideration when briefing your next strata levy debt recovery instruction:
Historically when matters have been difficult to serve, the information an owners corporation has access to, can assist us greatly in a successful and quicker levy debt recovery.
Here are some examples of how information has assisted JS Mueller & Co in faster recovery of strata levies… who would have thought!
Hockey Training
We’ve successfully served a guy with a Statement of Claim (SOC) at hockey training. All because the owners corporation advised us that he rode his bike once a week to hockey training.
Pony Club
JS Mueller & Co was able to serve another woman at Pony Club when we were advised by an owner/occupier that she stored her Pony Club stuff in the garage.
So, you can see little pieces of information an owners corporation knows about a lot owner can provide us the little piece of magic we need to get a successful result.
Keep the list above in a handy place for when you next provide a levy debt recovery instruction.
Our levy collection service is available across regional and metropolitan NSW so let us know if you need any assistance with levy recoveries, we’d be happy to assist.
For NSW strata legal or levy collection advice please contact us here or call 02 9562 1266, we’re happy to assist.
The NSW Government recently announced the delay of the strata building bond and inspection scheme.
Originally announced to start 1 July 2017 the commencement date has now been revised to 1 January 2018.
The delay is to allow for issues arising from the consultation phase to be addressed.
Please refer to the Building Defect Bond Scheme for further information.
For NSW strata legal or levy collection advice please contact us here or call 02 9562 1266, we’re happy to assist.
Can an owners corporation shut down the lifts in its building to refurbish them?
If so, does the owners corporation have to pay compensation to owners and tenants who cannot access their apartments via the lifts during a lift refurbishment? And does a lift refurbishment need to be authorised by special resolution?
There are many thorny issues to navigate, to find out more Strata Building Lift Refurbishments
For NSW strata legal or levy collection advice please contact us here or call 02 9562 1266, we’re happy to assist.
Can the strata committee approve repairs which alter, add to or improve common property?
The strata committee is generally able to organise maintenance and repairs to the common property. But what happens when maintenance or repairs alter, add to or improve the common property? Can the strata committee approve work of that type without the authority of a special resolution passed at a general meeting?
Read the full legal analysis here – Common Property Maintenance / Alterations
For NSW strata legal or levy collection advice please contact us here or call 02 9562 1266, we’re happy to assist.
Did you know that JS Mueller & Co can save you loads of time and money and recover your strata levy arrears faster?
How, you ask?
We have been recovering strata levies for over 30 years so we know all the tricks!
We have paralegals who do nothing but levy debt collection. They often spend an enormous amount of their day researching a bad debtor to find information to allow you to recover overdue levies faster.
To find these details we’ll spend time searching for any media articles, reviewing social media sites and generally hunting around the internet for any clues as to their place of work and living arrangements and, any other information which will help us locate the debtor.
This often turns up information about a debtor’s employment or tenant. We then use that information to contact the debtor, issue garnishee orders or just to get your levies paid quicker!
So, how can JS Mueller & Co save you time and money in the levy collection debt recovery process?
It’s simple. Often you’ll already know this information and if, at the time of instruction these details are provided to us that will save time and money, resulting in much faster levy collection debt recoveries.
Here’s a quick list of the helpful information about a debtor you can provide us, that’s if you know them, when providing your next levy collection instruction to us.
Click here for the full details of the new Levy Collection New Laws.
For strata legal or levy collection advice please contact us here or call 02 9562 1266, we’re happy to assist.
In a recent case a residential apartment building in Rhodes, Sydney claimed damages against Walker Group Constructions, inferring they had breached statutory warranties.
However, after a five day hearing, the referee came to this surprising conclusion – Were Statutory Warranties Breached?
For NSW strata legal or levy collection advice please contact us here or call 02 9562 1266, we’re happy to assist.