Body Corporate and Strata Guides
Plain answers to the compliance questions committees actually ask.
Plain answers to the questions committees actually ask
Strata compliance runs on legislation, and legislation is not written to be read by volunteers. These guides work through the questions that come up most often, in language a committee can use at a general meeting.
No sign up, no gate. Read them, forward them, argue with them.
Funding and forecasts
Sinking fund forecast or capital works fund?
Queensland and New South Wales use different names, different legislation and different review cycles for what is broadly the same job. Includes what changed in NSW on 1 April 2026.
Can a committee prepare its own sinking fund forecast?
In Queensland, yes. Whether the result holds up when an owner challenges the levy is a different question.
Reports and what they are for
Building condition report or dilapidation report?
Committees ask for one and mean the other often enough to be worth setting out. One assesses your building. The other proves what it looked like before someone built next door.
Compliance obligations
How to read a sinking fund forecast
What belongs in the document, the ten signs it was done from a desk rather than on site, and the five questions to put to a quantity surveyor before you engage one.
Who is responsible for repairs in a Queensland body corporate?
Roof leaks, windows, waterproofing, plumbing, structural damage. The plan type decides the answer, and most disputes start by skipping past that.
Work health and safety obligations for bodies corporate
Common property is a workplace whenever anyone works on it. This is the largest exposure most committees carry, and the one they are least prepared for.
Pool safety certificates in Queensland
What gets inspected, what fails most often, and why waiting for a sale to trigger it costs more.
Caretaking agreements
Section 130 caretaking remuneration reviews
A Queensland body corporate can request a review of its caretaking agreement within the first three years. The right cannot be contracted out of, and most committees do not know it exists.
Something missing?
If your committee is stuck on something not covered here, call 07 5573 4011 or email info@seymourconsultants.com.au. Questions that come up repeatedly tend to become guides.
