Unfair lock-in management contracts have been the strata industry’s lifeline for decades. Dr Nicole Johnston’s research confirms what owners have long suspected: the standard agreement is designed to protect the manager, not the client. Read why this must change in this week’s edition of The Strata Professional newsletter.
Surgeons have a method. Accountants have a method. Engineers have a method. Strata managers have… an inbox and a prayer. After fifty years, it’s time to ask why no one has built a proper operational method for running a strata scheme. This week’s newsletter tackles the question.
Most businesses talk about what they do. The most disciplined ones start by deciding what they will never do. I'm announcing a new strata management firm built around an 11-point don't do list.
Do you understand your insurer’s stance on the cladding crisis? This episode helps explain the insurance industry’s dilemma when it comes to Aluminium Composite Panels (ACP).
A joint Deakin / Griffith University study, ‘An Examination of Building Defects in Residential Multi Owned Properties’, was coincidentally launched within days of the Opal Tower building evacuation on Christmas eve, 2018. It provided an academic foundation to the intense public and regulatory debate that ensued about the strata building defect crisis.
There are few people in the world that have seen and learnt as much about strata as Francesco Andreone. He’s controversial, but he is one of the few in the industry that thinks deeply about the strata condition and his views are always worth considering.
