Our Body Corporate Services

The primary focus of Meek Mercier Body Corporate Services is to provide client focused, professionally delivered, quality body corporate management and administrative services to those bodies corporate with whom we are partnered, and to support each body corporate committee with expert information and advice, and assistance to ensure their effective operation.

Services to the Body Corporate

Body corporate management and associated services

To operate effectively, every body corporate requires quality management and administrative services, professionally delivered. Meek Mercier Body Corporate Services guarantees to provide such services to your body corporate with an emphasis on quality, client service and professionalism.

Additional specialised services

In addition to the delivery of quality management and administrative services to your body corporate, should the need arise, Meek Mercier Body Corporate Services are able to assist your body corporate with a range of additional professional services thus avoiding the need for the engagement of lawyers (for example, debt recovery, management transfers, and dispute resolution).

Reports and insurance services

Meek Mercier Body Corporate Services are able to co-ordinate the preparation and presentation of a range of reports which any body corporate might require from time to time, for example, sinking fund forecasts, maintenance reports, and Workplace Health and Safety Reports and audits. In addition to the annual review and renewal of your body corporate’s insurance policies, Meek Mercier Body Corporate Services can arrange all other insurance aspects for your body corporate including quotes, coverage, and claims management. 

Advocacy, representation, and dispute resolution services

In disputes before the Commissioner’s Office, Body Corporate and Community Management or the Commercial and Consumer Tribunal, Meek Mercier Body Corporate Services will be able to provide expert information, advice, representation and, if necessary advocacy should a body corporate engage Meek Mercier Body Corporate Services to provide such services. As well, we have the ability to provide “in-house” dispute resolution services, including “early intervention strategies” should disputes arise.

“Premium Select” products and services

Meek Mercier Body Corporate Services is flexible and innovative in the products and services which it offers. Our services can be individually tailored to suit the requirements of your Body Corporate. Just ask us. In addition, for select Bodies Corporate not within our usual client demographic, Meek Mercier Body Corporate Services can tailor a premium product offering and level of service to suit your body corporate’s individual needs and expectations.

Additional services to meet your needs

Richard and Marc’s expert knowledge of the legislation, both as legal professionals, and from their extensive experience with the Office of the Commissioner, Body Corporate and Community Management means that, in addition to the management and administrative services which Meek Mercier Body Corporate Services can provide to your body corporate, Meek Mercier Body Corporate Services can provide a range of additional services which every body corporate needs from time to time, but which other body corporate managers simply cannot provide.

For example, dispute resolution and debt recovery proceedings, the complex procedures associated with a transfer of management and letting rights, and advice on complex legislative or management issues which arise for each body corporate from time to time.

Services to the Committee

Supporting your committee // Compliance with the Code of Conduct

With the introduction of the Code of Conduct for Committee voting members in 2007, being a voting member of a body corporate committee just got significantly more complex. A requirement of the code is that a committee voting member must have a commitment to acquiring an understanding of the Act relevant to the member’s role on the committee.

As experts in the legislation, Meek Mercier Body Corporate Services are there at every meeting, informing the committee and the Body Corporate of all relevant and applicable legislative requirements. In short, engaging us is the best insurance your committee could have in ensuring that members understand the Act and its requirements. We take the hard work out of being a committee member, leaving your committee free to concentrate on the management of your body corporate.

Transfer of management rights (and other procedures)

When a body corporate is requested to approve a transfer of its management rights, most committee’s need to engage lawyers, in addition to your manager, to advise it accordingly. As well as being your appointed body corporate manager, as legal professionals, Meek Mercier Body Corporate Services can assist in all aspects of a management rights transfer, thus avoiding the engagement of lawyers, and providing a more streamlined and cost effective procedure for all involved. This is similar to other scenarios where the engagement of lawyers is usually required.

Services to owners

Searches, advice and strategy, advocacy

Assuming a conflict of interest does not exist with a body corporate by whom we are engaged, Meek Mercier Body Corporate Services are happy to accept instructions from individuals owners for a range of services which an owner might require. For example, information, advice and, and if necessary, advocacy services to owners where a potential dispute has arisen or might arise with your body corporate, or another owner. In addition, on your instruction, Meek Mercier Body Corporate Services can search body corporate records on your behalf and report to you on any issue or matter of concern to you. Given our experience in matters of dispute, we are ideally placed to advise owners on the most appropriate strategy for dealing with any situation which arises.

Information on body corporate procedures

Meek Mercier Body Corporate Services are able to provide information and advice owners on all body corporate requirements and procedures. From representation at a meeting to wanting to make improvements to your lot, just ask us. We’ll tell you in plain English what the legislation requires, and even assist you in drafting your motion, if one is required. Its in your and your body corporate’s interest that you get it right, first time. 

Services to others

Consultancy services

Meek Mercier Body Corporate Services are happy to accept instructions from any person seeking expert information, advice or assistance in all matters body corporate. We’re not just body corporate managers. Our background as legal professionals, and extensive experience in the legislation, allow us to provide services beyond the scope of most body corporate managers.

Body Corporate establishment services

Meek Mercier Body Corporate Services offers to developers, and bodies corporate which have not been previously established or operational, a full range of body corporate establishment services. This includes advice on the requirements for a community management statement and appropriate by-laws, convening of all necessary body corporate meetings, establishment of the body corporate books and records and other administrative procedures, and all other procedures a new body corporate might require.