Property & facilities
Emergency repairs in a body corporate, after hours
The trustees cannot meet at 2am, and the Act and the management rules already say who may authorise the repair, who may enter a unit and who pays.
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Property & facilities
Burst geyser: what to do in the first ten minutes
Switch off the power, shut the water, protect the ceiling, then photograph everything before you phone the insurer. Here is the order and why.
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Property & facilities
Maintenance contractors for bodies corporate
The Act makes trustees maintain the common property. It does not say how to find the contractor, compare the quotes or check the registers first. This does.
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Property & facilities
Who approves the quote in a sectional title scheme
There are 130 female sectional title owners for every 100 male owners, and the quote your contractor wrote is still addressed to a single homeowner.
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The Arabella Brief
What changed this week, and what it costs you on Monday.
One email on a Friday, covering the week from Friday to Thursday so the week is closed when it is written. What actually changed, everything with a date on it, one development run through what it means for a contractor with forty people, and what we got wrong. A thin week is a short issue.