March 2023 – BCM conference
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December 2022 – Short term letting
Posted onMany 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 […]
June 2022 – Body Corporate Manager exit fees
Posted onWhen a body corporate manager is offering themselves as your new contractor, very few (none to our knowledge) impose a setup fee. They waive setup fees to be competitive and win your business. We do this too. However, there is substantial work for the body corporate manager to be done at the time of setting […]
July 2021 – Car parking in a commercial scheme
Posted onWe’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 […]
October 2020 – New BCCM regulations in Qld
Posted onThere 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 […]
May 2020 – COVID-19
Posted onThe government has addressed COVID-19 temporary measures to assist lot owners in bodies corporate. One of those measures requires any penalty interest that would normally be applied to a lot ledger, due to an upaid levy, to not be applied. This measure must be in place from 25th May through to 31st December 2020. After […]
December 2018 – General meeting motions
Posted onA lot owner had some concerns about a motion that was scheduled to be voted upon at an upcoming AGM. The issue was around the motion wording, the explanatory note, and the attached quotation to the Notice of meeting. Written and verbal clarification had been sought from the committee and specifically the committee member who had organised […]
August 2018 – Home office and body corporate insurance
Posted onCommittees are often concerned about the impact of a lot occupier’s home office in a residential complex. There are relevant BCCM adjudications that have upheld the use of a home office providing all by-laws are being respected (such as not causing a nuisance). Different councils have different rules about whether approval of the office is required. Generally, councils […]
July 2018 – Bank transaction fees
Posted onBanks generally do not charge a transaction fee when depositing money into a bank account by cheque or by cash at a branch of the bank. In our case, we use Macquarie bank and the DEFT system for our fully managed and bookkeeper clients. Macquarie bank does not have their own branch network and uses the Australia […]
June 2018 – Another satisfied client converts to the two-lot regulation
Posted onThe BCCM Commissioner recently advised that there are now in excess of 43 thousand community titles schemes in Queensland. Only 1.5% of these schemes are registered under the two-lot module, yet about 50% of the 43 thousand schemes consist of only two lots. Since the two lot regulation has only existed since February 2012, it is likely […]