Guides for South Australian owners and committees
Most people become a strata or community title owner without ever being handed an explanation of what that means. You get a contract, a levy notice, and a set of obligations nobody walks you through, and then a decision to make about who manages the corporation, usually with no way to compare one manager against another.
These are the documents we give a body corporate that asks. They are free, they need no email address, and they are yours to circulate to your committee or your neighbours. The first two explain ownership itself and are worth reading whether or not you ever speak to us.
South Australian law throughout. Strata and community title are governed state by state, and South Australia’s two Acts, the Strata Titles Act 1988 and the Community Titles Act 1996, differ from the equivalents interstate in ways that change the answer, not just the wording. If your building is in another state, these will mislead you.
- Owning a strata titled unitWhat you own, what the corporation owns, and who pays for what, from the walls of your unit to the roof above it. The starting point if your title says strata.PDF · 16 pages · 1.8 MB
- Owning a community titled lotThe same ground for community title, which is the more common form in South Australia and works differently in ways that matter: lot boundaries, common property, and lot subsidiaries like carports and courtyards.PDF · 20 pages · 5.1 MB
- What a manager actually doesThe full list of what a body corporate manager is responsible for, service by service. Useful whether or not you are looking to change managers, because it is the checklist to hold your current one against.PDF · 8 pages · 1.4 MB
- Essentials: self-managing with supportFor groups that run their own meetings and want administration, compliance and accounts handled behind them. What the corporation keeps doing itself, and what it hands over.PDF · 8 pages · 579 kB
- Essentials vs Full Service, with feesA side-by-side comparison of both plans and what each costs, including the incidental charges. Published in full so a committee can compare us against a quote without asking for it.PDF · 2 pages · 152 kB
- Our Service GuaranteeThe commitments we make in writing on response times, meeting minutes and reporting, and what happens if we miss them.PDF · 1 page · 976 kB
- The people behind the collectiveWho runs Acacia Collective, and why a member-owned manager answers to a different set of people than a manager owned by outside shareholders.PDF · 2 pages · 471 kB
Or have the set posted to you
Printed and bound, free, and easier to hand around a committee than a folder of PDFs. We need an address to post it to. Nothing above on this page asks for anything, and that doesn't change.
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