Everything about community management and property administration, with legal rigour.
Two Acts govern the same meeting and they count the days differently. The countback for a real date, what goes in the envelope and what happens when four people turn up.
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The same 20-flat building must save 1,500 euros a year in Belgium and over 21,000 in Austria. The legal minimum reserve fund in 12 European jurisdictions, with the law behind each figure.
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A neighbour with a new electric car barely needs the meeting's permission in most countries now. What they must notify, what the association can stop and who pays.
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Two State schemes, one Bill not yet introduced and tens of thousands of owners waiting. The work an OMC can do before the funding opens decides how fast it moves.
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Footage from the entrance hall expires faster than the milk in the fridge. The European rules that decide whether your cameras protect you or expose you.
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A president with the right tool doesn't take your clients — it takes the operational grind that eats your evenings. Here's why that pays off.
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The role stacks up calls, paperwork and reproach. An app built around the president hands you back the control — and the free evenings.
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Notice periods, auto-renewal traps and the records handover no outgoing agent volunteers, plus an honest test of whether your block could self-manage instead.
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Insurance, lifts, bins, the managing agent: what your service charge actually funds, how the MUD Act sets it, and why arrears surface the day you try to sell.
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The MUD Act suggests €200 per unit per year for the sinking fund. Chartered surveyors put the real need closer to €2,000, and most blocks have no plan at all.
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