Essential Links – All the good stuff
Firstly, here are our sponsors who wouldn’t be advertising in these pages if I didn’t think they were good operators.
STRATA MANAGERS
Firstly, there’s our website sponsor StrataChoice whom I’ve known for years and who, as Linders Strata Managers, took over the running of my own building and helped us through a very difficult first few years. I was very pleased when they jumped in at the first opportunity to sponsor the site.
Murray Cameron of StrataRes was a prime mover in getting me to redesign and get this website to start paying its way. Murray runs an established strata management firm called StrataRes (www.stratares.com) but, interestingly also offers an online self-management service at www.stratamanageit.com which allows several levels of service from a free strata web interface through to a full strata management service. Murray is very active on the Flat Chat Forum so it’s only appropriate that he sponsors that page.
STRATA LAWYERS
Teys Lawyers have also been hugely helpful in taking this renewed website to new levels with a lot of very valuable information on the website. Several of the Teys team make regular contributions to the Forum and its great to have them sponsoring the Home and Archive pages.
STRATA FINANCE
There comes a time in many buildings’ lives when work just has to be done, there’s no money in the kitty but the owners can’t raise another special levy. Paul Morton of Lannock Strata Finance would say you should call him long before you get to that stage. Lannocks are one of only two specialist strata finance companies around, offering loans to Owners Corporations rather than individual owners, and we are delighted to have them on board as a Silver sponsor.
Here are some other links I use fairly often for various reasons …
Owners Corporation Network (OCN) is the peak apartment owners’ body for Australia. Growing in size and influence.
Domain – the section of the Sydney Morning Herald that publishes my column is also the place to go online if you want to buy, sell or rent property in Australia.
Fair Trading strata section – the part of the bit of the NSW Government that looks after apartments, units and townhouses. This is where you’ll find information such as their Strata Living handbook.
The Fair Trading website is handy for the general overview but for specifics, you may have to look elsewhere. However, they finally have easily accessible PROXY FORMS – proxy votes have to be on specific forms, not a scribbled note on the back of a cigarette packet – NOTICE TO COMPLY forms and application forms for MEDIATION - the essential first step in an complaints procedure through Fair Trading and then the CTTT. Just download the forms, print them off and fill them in and post them – easy as that.
By now, if you don’t have a pdf reader to read all the stuff posted on these links, you will want one. The original and probably the best is from Adobe and it’s free.
Other specialist strata lawyers include Stephen Goddard, Colin Grace, Bannermans. David Le Page and Suzie Broome among others.
If you’re thinking of buying property and need professional help, Good Deeds is a good place to start.
For building managers, there’s none better than Francis Management – no- nonsense, practical and highly professional.
Last and definitely not least, Sue Williams - my co-writer, partner, editor, muse and both staunchest supporter and fiercest critic.
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