Issues

January 2024 – Body corporate account reconstruction

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We’ve just finished successfully setting up a new DIY client who has terminated their existing body corporate manager. Unfortunately, this was done just prior to the end of the financial year of the body corporate and we were required to reconstruct in excess of 300 transactions. The prior body corporate manager was not helpful and […]

Banking

June 2023 – DIY Body Corporate and BPAY for levy payments

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We recently added support for levy payment by BPAY for our DIY bodies corporate.  However, the issue of bank expenses for the body corporate will be difficult to justify for many small bodies corporate.  Firstly, there is a bank setup fee, typically $150.  Then there are monthly banking charges, typically $10 per month.  Lastly, there are individual transaction […]

By-Laws

December 2022 – Short term letting

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Many schemes in South East Queensland have had issues with lot owners leasing their lots using AirBNB or other similar service providers. The BCCMA prohibits by-laws that restrict the leasing of units or restrict the type of residential use that can be made of the unit. By-laws seeking to prohibit the short term letting of […]

Uncategorised

July 2021 – Car parking in a commercial scheme

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We’ve recently taken on body corporate management of a commercial scheme which has car parking problems. The scheme is a light industrial property of seven lots. There is car parking along the front of the property which is all common property. A scheme to allocate some exclusive use car parking areas was resolved at an […]

Legislation

October 2020 – New BCCM regulations in Qld

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There will be plenty of websites wanting to tell you about the new changes to the Queensland BCCM regulations that will come into force on March 1st 2021. Rather than giving our spin on the new regulations, we recommend reading the summary of the changes to the Standard module regulation as written by the queensland […]