Sectional Titles
Paddocks Press - March 2021
22 April 2021
In this edition: "Knowledge Maps" setting out the basics of the Sectional Titles Schemes Management Act, it's Regulations and the Prescribed Management and Conduct rules; tenants being nominated as trustees; and can the CSOS adjudicate parking disputes?
Paddocks Press - February 2021
1 April 2021
This edition includes: Graham's semi-retirement announcement; CSOS: A brief analysis of the first five Western Cape CSOS orders; and why Covid-19 is not an excuse to delay an Annual General Meeting.
Paddocks Press - January 2021
25 February 2021
This edition includes: Approving additional water heating systems on common property; dipping into the reserve fund; video surveillance; and can a member refuse to use the biometrics access control system?
Saviour or scourge?
21 January 2021
A consideration of levy financing companies in the light of the fact that many of them now offer a veritable smorgasbord of innovative and solutions-based finance options for community schemes.
Paddocks Press - December 2020
7 January 2021
This edition includes: Paddocks has downsized and re-invented itself as an exclusively online business; safety around swimming pools; and can bodies corporate withhold levy clearance certificate for levies due on another unit?
Paddocks Press - November 2020
10 December 2020
This edition includes: The validity of non-owners serving on the board of trustees in sectional title schemes; photographing residents who are contravening the conduct rules; and reporting a flawed CSOS order.
Paddocks Press - October 2020
19 November 2020
In this edition: a note on the restructuring of Paddocks; a reflection on the last 4 years of CSOS Adjudications; spending body corporate funds; and building a pool in an EUA.
Paddocks Press - September 2020
5 November 2020
In this edition: The Appointment of a Covid-19 Compliance Officers in Community Schemes; the benefits of online sectional title meetings; and what can owners do to force trustees to call an Annual General Meeting?
How ST Scheme rules changed in 2016
29 October 2020
Graham Paddock discusses the effect of the Sectional Titles Management Scheme Act on the rules of all non-subsidiary bodies corporate since coming into operation on 7 October 2016.