Articles related to "Trustees"
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Your sectional title buying checklist
As owning a sectional title unit over a freestanding home is becoming more and more popular due to the rising costs of maintaining properties and the added security sectional title often offer ...
Property Advice
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Propell
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24 May 2013
Don’t Sink Your Financial Ship
Rising utility costs, wage increases and the cost of maintaining a sectional title development have undoubtedly impacted on bodies corporate around the country. It can be said with a fair amount of certainty that bodies ...
Property Advice
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Lea Jacobs
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13 Sep 2012
Turning a bad building around
It sometimes happens that sectional title buildings encounter problems of mismanagement and become run down, even possibly unsafe in some cases and where the trustees have not taken due care of the management of the building. It ...
Property Advice
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Michael Bauer
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09 Jul 2012
Building on common property in sectional title
If a group of owners wish to build on a common property, what are the steps required to make this happen? For example, what would happen if the owners wanted to build a swimming pool?
Individual owners can only build on the ...
Lifestyle and Decor
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Paddocks
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04 Jul 2012
Check before your appoint your Agent
The liquidation of Constantia Sectional Title Management (CSTM), one of the larger Gauteng companies operating in this field, should send a warning signal to every sectional title trustee and sectional title owners in South ...
Property Advice
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Michael Bauer
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25 Jun 2012
Resolving sectional title disputes
The growing popularity of arbitration rather than litigation in sectional title property disputes stems from its being both less expensive and faster.
The Sectional Title Act’s Prescribed Management Rule 71 was recently amended ...
Property Advice
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Michael Bauer
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25 Jun 2012
Sectional Title Schemes: The Rules
There are many cases where trustees and/or their members do not know the difference between management and conduct rules.
Conduct rules apply to the day to day business of living together in a complex or an estate where every ...
Property Advice
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Michael Bauer
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25 Jun 2012
Fiduciary duties of Home Owners’ Association executives
Common law states that Home Owners’ Association (HOA) executives have a special legal relationship to their HOA. They owe the HOA a duty of trust, reasonable skill and confidentiality. This is referred to as the “fiduciary ...
Property Advice
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Paddocks
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19 Apr 2012
Trustees are accountable for complex maintenance
A sticky situation relating to trustees’ responsibilities towards repairs and maintenance in a sectional title complex.
Property Advice
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Rawson
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19 Apr 2012
Trustees are accountable for complex repairs
A sticky situation relating to trustees’ responsibilities towards repairs and maintenance in a sectional title complex.
Property Advice
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Rawson
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19 Apr 2012
