While your tenancy agreement is with your landlord or property manager, there is a separate layer of rules and responsibilities that come from the body corporate.
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Parking generally falls into four main categories: exclusive use or lot parking, common property parking, visitor parking, and disabled parking. Each type comes with its own rules, rights, and responsibilities.
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If you live in or own a lot in a strata community – whether it’s an apartment, townhouse, or mixed-use development, you’ll regularly deal with different professionals who help keep the property running smoothly. The three roles most commonly confused are the body corporate manager, building manager, and property manager.
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Whether you’re interested in improving how the building is managed, want to understand decisions from the inside, or simply enjoy being involved, the role can be rewarding, insightful, and impactful.
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Whether in a townhouse complex, apartment building, or mixed-use development, body corporate living combines convenience, shared management, and a sense of community that traditional home ownership doesn’t always provide.
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Ordinary resolutions are the most common type of resolution used at a general meeting. They provide the backbone for day-to-day decision making in a body corporate and allow owners to guide how their scheme is run.
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While there is no formal ‘code of conduct’ for owners and residents under Queensland’s Body Corporate and Community Management Act 1997 (BCCM Act), there are clear legal obligations and behavioural standards that apply and are enforceable.
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Entitlements are numbers assigned to each lot (unit, townhouse, or apartment) within a body corporate scheme. They determine ow much you pay in levies and your voting power in general meetings.
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When a property is developed and subdivided into lots and common property, such as an apartment block, townhouse, or commercial unit complex, a body corporate is automatically created. This is not just a legal structure, it’s a vital framework that allows a shared living environment to manage common property, finances, and community rules.
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In today’s digital age, embracing electronic communication is a smart move for body corporate owners. One of the simplest, yet most effective changes is the transition for owners to receive all body corporate communication – such as levy and meeting notices, meeting minutes and general correspondence, by email rather than traditional post.
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