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Residential

The Great Trolley Chase: Are your building’s lifts out of bounds?

It may seem like an odd question, but it is one we get regularly: Can we take our shopping trolleys into our buildings’ lifts? The answer always starts with “Well, it depends…”

Not all shopping trolleys are created equal

There …

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Body Corporate Investment

How building sustainability can be a communal activity

These days ‘sustainability’ isn’t a household word anymore. We use it—and a raft of other new terms—at work, on holidays, at the shops, in the car… We’re more conscious now of our impact on the world around us than ever …

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Body Corporate Investment

Things to consider when creating a balcony garden

With 1.3m Australians now living in an apartment (according to the 2016 Census), balconies have fast become the new Aussie backyard.

Greening your apartment and your balcony is a great way to bring nature into your home, and to create …

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Body Corporate Investment

Things That Must be Disclosed when Buying a Lot in a Scheme

If you’ve decided to purchase a residential or commercial property within a Strata Scheme, make sure you receive all the information you are entitled to, and need to know.

Sometimes not having the right information can cause issues or anguish, …

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Strata scheme

Proxy Votes: should you give your voting right to someone else?

Gathering proxy votes is common practice in body corporates. It’s a way for active lot owners to gain more votes for something they want done.   If that “something” will benefit the scheme and all lot owners, then it makes sense. …

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Financial

What are the options for paying your body corporate levies?

How often are you required to pay Body Corporate levies, and what happens if you don’t pay on time?

Owning a property in a Strata complex means that when you buy into this situation, you’re making a commitment to make …

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Financial

What happens to the money you pay for body corporate fees?

“What happens to the money I pay out in body corporate fees?” is one of the most common questions we receive at Tower Body Corporate.

It’s a good question, and every lot owner (or potential lot owner) is entitled to …

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Residential

How will you get along with your neighbours this Christmas?

We think of Christmas as a Christian celebration don’t we – but it is more than that.

In Australia, no matter what religious beliefs we have, or do not have, we tend to treat the end of December and early …