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Queensland’s booming population has not only resulted in a steady increase in the number of body corporate complexes, but also an increase in demand for body corporate managers and caretaking service contactors.

 

Body corporate managers and caretaking service contractors often assist the body corporate to engage service providers such as pool cleaners, gardeners and tradies as well as obtaining insurance quotes.

 

They may also lawfully receive commissions or benefits from service providers they recommend to a body corporate. However, where ANY benefit is received – be it cash or in-kind – it must, by law, be disclosed to the body corporate...

The person chairing a general meeting must declare the result of voting on motions and elections at the general meeting. That includes the number of votes cast for and against motions and on candidates for committee positions.

 

What happens if there was an error, mistake or oversight in the voting process that is discovered after the result has been declared and the meeting has been closed?

Most of the time, an error won’t change the result because most general meetings are uncontroversial and the few who attend them simply go through the motions of recording inevitable results.

 

But if an error could change a result, it is usually a sign of a closely contested election or vote on a controversial motion. Conspiracies of vote-tampering will ripen in that environment.

 

There is no legislated process for dealing with this scenario, so what a committee does (or doesn’t) do will come under intense scrutiny...

Too many times we are called as the last resort to fix building leaks. The building has had numerous contractors from roof plumbers to window washers come to a building to patch a hole or put silicone throughout the building, and still the building continues to leak. It seems like the arcade game of ‘Whack ‘Em All’ - plug one hole here and another springs up over there.

 

Yesterday, I was at a building that had spent $30,000 over the past year trying to find recurring leaks in several locations on one side of the building. The building is 7 storeys high, and leaks were presenting on the ground floor and level 3 apartments.

 

The thoughts were that the damage occurred via 2 separate leaks. This may be the case, but as this was the first inspection and we could not gain access to all areas, we could not confirm this is the case at this early stage. But it did intrigue me that no contractor had even looked at the roof – which upon inspection had major defects...

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