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Making fines stick in community schemes

The executives in many sectional title schemes and home owners’ associations (HOAs) use fines as a way of discouraging rule breaking by members or residents. At first glance this seems a good way of ensuring that the rules are ...

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The benefits of buying sectional title

Purchasing a sectional title unit has proven to be very popular in South Africa for a number of reasons.

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Know Your Body Corporate Rights

Investors who buy into a sectional title scheme need to understand that as owners, they are automatically part of the decision-making process, regardless of how active or inactive they are on the body corporate. Professor ...

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Warm up winter by getting into better financial shape for summer

Winter is the time when most local authorities raise their rates as well as their tariffs for water and electricity supplies.

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The benefits of buying sectional title

Purchasing a sectional title unit has proven to be very popular in South Africa for a number of reasons, says Adrian Goslett, CEO of RE/MAX of Southern Africa.

Lifestyle and Decor

Increasing your property value

Your property is one of the largest investments you will make in your life time. Maintain that investment and increase the re-sale value with these steps.

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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 ...

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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 ...

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Balcony leakages

Balconies are a huge asset in any sectional title scheme, but they have an inconvenient tendency to leak rainwater onto balconies or units below, and this can all too often result in damages to several units. What is more, the ...

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