These two books will prove to be useful to the owner of a sectional title unit, a trustee, the chairman of a body corporate, an estate agent or a student, in that they encapsulate the author's experience in tackling practical sectional title problems. The author - Ted Woudberg - is an independent property consultant and estate administrator.
The books are user-friendly with the following topics being covered in Basic Sectional Title Book One:
- Levies of the body corporate
- Special levies
- Rules of the body corporate
- Common property and exclusive use areas
- Management of the body corporate
- Self administration: Writing up a simple set of books
- Tenants and leases
- Trustees
- Insurance policy
- Decisions made by the body corporate
- Repairs and maintenance
- Summary of the Sectional Titles Act
- Share blocks
Basic Sectional Title Book Two covers the more technical elements of sectional titles and complements Book One with its more detailed analysis of the following topics:
- Development of a sectional title complex
- Municipal rates and taxes
- Building employees
- Meetings of the body corporate
- Investment of surplus funds
- Income taxes and levies
- Anomalies associated with levies
- Conduct rules and the new constitution
- Employment of managing agents
- Current developments
Both works have indexes while the first book has a glossary of terminology.
Book One ordering details
Book Two ordering details
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