Sectional Title – the need to keep two separate body corporate funds
Bodies Corporate must now keep 2 funds, a ‘reserve’ and an ‘administrative’ fund.
This is prescribed by the Sectional Titles ...
By Helen Grange hgrange@mweb.co.za
When you’re hunting for a property, it’s important to ask the right questions, and one of them should be: ‘is there a servitude?’ The presence ...
The Body Corporate switched off a client’s electricity, because he fell into arrears with his levies. He asked me what steps he could take to have his electricity switched back ...
What rights does a landlord have if a tenant cancels the residential lease, before it ends?
The tenant has the right to cancel the lease at any time (on 20 business ...
Because the landlord has evicted you without first getting a court order, you need to bring what is called a “spoliation” application to be allowed back onto the leased premises.
As ...
Can a Body Corporate fine an owner for, e.g. making too much noise, being discourteous to security officers, or keeping a pet, against the Conduct Rules of the complex?
Karen Bleijs ...
A client, who lives in a double-story sectional title complex, asked me: “My neighbour above me has a water leak in his bathroom. Water has seeped through to my unit ...
Is your sectional title complex looking a bit tired?
Maintenance
The trustees of your body corporate need to maintain the complex (to keep it more or less in its original condition). These ...
Can you please assist on tenants’ rights in terms of fines being issued by the Body Corporate?
I am able to give you a brief general answer to your query, however ...
Q
Please can you kindly advise me on how I can challenge the body corporate to stop the process of disconnecting electricity.
The electricity at our complex is pre-paid.
A
As regards your ...
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