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A beginner’s guide to Owners Corporations

Free email course

Learn all the Owners Corporation basics in just five minutes a day. A short email course for new owners, new committee members, and anyone who has ever opened a levy notice and wondered what half of it meant.

Our email training courses are the perfect option for those with busy schedules, looking for a low-effort, high-reward way of improving their Owners Corporation understanding.

Who it is for

If you have just bought into a strata building, joined a committee, or have owned a lot for years without ever being told how any of it works — this is the place to start.

What to expect:

  • a daily email over 4 weeks
  • <5 minute read time per email
  • a downloadable eBook upon completion

Get an introduction into everything you need to know about Owners Corporation living, in as little as 5 minutes per day.

Designed to give you maximum knowledge, with minimal effort, this course is a series of short, easy to digest emails, arriving in your inbox over the course of 4 weeks.

What the course covers

One email a day, each one readable in about five minutes.

  • What an Owners Corporation actually is, and who is in it
  • Common property versus your lot — where the boundary sits
  • Levies: who sets them, what they pay for, and why they change
  • The committee: what it can decide and what must go to the owners
  • Meetings, quorum, proxies and voting
  • Insurance, maintenance plans and the maintenance fund
  • Where to go when something goes wrong

You will learn:

  • What is an Owners Corporation?
  • Who is the Owners Corporation Committee?
  • What is the Plan of Subdivision?
  • How do decisions get made?
  • What are levies and what do they cover?
  • and much more

What it costs

Nothing. The course is free and you can unsubscribe at any point. We do not pass your address to anyone.

Feedback on our email courses.

“This was an excellent introductory course and one which was perfectly measured in terms of contents, relevant subject matter, length and frequency.”

“I've enjoyed the 'Beginners' Guide to OC' and 'OC Act Updates.' It gives me valuable tips on being a committee member, and the confidence to quote rules and regulations about the workings of an OC.”

“This was a practical and very convenient way to be educated.”

Start the course

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