Bettr Strata

Bettr Strata Strata management done properly. Clear communication. Strong governance. No corporate spin. No BS, Just Bettr Strata.

đź“Ť Bettr Strata is based in Berry, Bowral, Miranda, and Shellharbour.

🏢 Clear, accountable strata management.

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The most important role I've got, and my favourite one. Learned from the best. Happy Father's Day.JM
05/09/2026

The most important role I've got, and my favourite one. Learned from the best. Happy Father's Day.

JM

Bulli Beach, Saturday morning. We’re lucky to live and work in the Illawarra and days like this are the reminder. Me, Lo...
05/09/2026

Bulli Beach, Saturday morning. We’re lucky to live and work in the Illawarra and days like this are the reminder. Me, Loz and Charlie.

Part of our work is inside schemes the Tribunal has taken off their owners and handed to a compulsory managing agent. Se...
01/09/2026

Part of our work is inside schemes the Tribunal has taken off their owners and handed to a compulsory managing agent. Section 237, if you want to look it up. None of them got there overnight. The AGM stops, the records thin out, arrears become normal, maintenance turns into emergency, the committee shrinks to one person. If two of those sound familiar, the fix is still cheap: hold the meeting, chase the debt, have the hard conversation. Waiting is the only thing that makes it expensive.

Wollongong from the harbour, late afternoon.Every one of those buildings has an owners corporation behind it. Levies, in...
29/08/2026

Wollongong from the harbour, late afternoon.

Every one of those buildings has an owners corporation behind it. Levies, insurance renewals, a capital works fund, a committee of volunteers trying to get it right around their day jobs.

Most people walking past see a skyline. We see the schemes.

Berry | Bowral | Liverpool | Miranda | Shellharbour

Every service business behaves the way its revenue model tells it to. Not the way the values statement reads. The way th...
27/08/2026

Every service business behaves the way its revenue model tells it to. Not the way the values statement reads. The way the money works.

If part of an agency's income comes from an insurer, advice about insurance has a second audience. That isn't dishonesty and most of the people involved are perfectly decent. It's what the income does.

If a manager is carrying sixty buildings, they triage. Your roof waits behind someone else's flood. Not because they're lazy. Because sixty is sixty.

If a fee has a low headline number and a long list of things billed separately, somebody in that business is measured on finding them.

None of it needs a villain. It's arithmetic.

Ours: capped portfolios, no commission from insurers, one management fee you're told about before you sign. Which leaves one way for us to make money, and that's keeping a client a long time. So it's cheaper for us to stop a problem than to bill you for it.

Ask us the same question.

Most committees thinking about changing strata managers don't actually need to.A change of agent costs a lot more than t...
20/08/2026

Most committees thinking about changing strata managers don't actually need to.

A change of agent costs a lot more than the difference in the fee. Whoever comes in has to learn your building from scratch. The history, the defects, the contractors, who's who on the committee, and the thing that happened three years ago that everyone still remembers. That takes the better part of a year. If you're halfway through remedial works, it takes longer and it costs you.

So it's worth being honest about what the actual problem is before you go looking.

Levies went up. Fair enough, but that budget was approved by the owners. Ask to see the estimates it was built from before you decide the manager is the problem.

One bad interaction. Everyone has a bad week, us included.

Nothing is getting decided. If the committee can't agree, a new manager won't fix that. We've watched it not fix it.

You've been with them for years and it feels stale. Longevity on its own isn't a fault.

Now the other side, and we'd say all of this even if it meant losing a client.

If you can't get an answer, and not slow but genuinely absent, that's a problem.

If the records are a mess and nobody can explain how they got that way, that's a problem.

If you're being charged for things nobody mentioned, that's a problem.

And if they don't tell you the bad news, that's the big one. You'll get the news eventually. It just costs more by the time it reaches you, and by then the cheapest option has usually gone.

Read that lot honestly. If your manager comes out of it alright, stay where you are. If they don't, ring three agencies, ask hard questions, and don't pick on price.

The best strata manager I ever worked with never recited the Act at anyone. He translated it, so owners could understand...
13/08/2026

The best strata manager I ever worked with never recited the Act at anyone. He translated it, so owners could understand what was happening and decide for themselves. Thirteen months into running Bettr Strata, I think about that more than I did at the time.

đź”— Blog: https://bettrstrata.com.au/why-i-do-strata-this-way/

JM

Some owners think their levy is the strata manager's salary.It comes up more often than you'd think.Part of that is on u...
12/08/2026

Some owners think their levy is the strata manager's salary.

It comes up more often than you'd think.

Part of that is on us as an industry. Strata is good at issuing documents and poor at explaining them. A budget that technically discloses everything but can't be read by the person paying for it hasn't really disclosed anything.

Part of it is on owners. The information exists. The AGM notice contains the estimates the contributions were set from. The financial statements show what was actually spent against them. Both are sent to every owner, and most open neither.

That's understandable. It's dry, and people are busy. But for most owners this is the largest asset they'll ever own, run on a budget they get a vote on once a year.

Worth ten minutes.

Our first bit of merchandise turned up this week. It's a hat.No campaign. No models, no lifestyle shoot, no bookshelf in...
04/08/2026

Our first bit of merchandise turned up this week. It's a hat.

No campaign. No models, no lifestyle shoot, no bookshelf in the background. It was photographed on a phone, on a notepad, on a desk, because that's where it was sitting.

It isn't really merchandise anyway. It's a work hat. The part of this job that matters happens on site - carparks, rooftops, plant rooms, standing in a driveway working out where the water is getting in. A cap earns its keep out there. Sun is one job. Being recognisable when you turn up is another.

Thirteen months ago this company didn't exist. This is the first thing we've made that isn't a document.

18/07/2026

Them: “But you can’t launch a strata company and give up the insurance commissions. A fee-for-service model will never survive.”

Us: …

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