46 published pages
All pages, topic by topic
Each page covers a specific situation and sets out what to do. Topics grow with each new publication.
The syndic
- Syndic duties: checking that yours carries out all 16 legal tasks
- Volunteer syndic: deciding whether it suits your building
- Professional syndic: checking BIV/IPI accreditation, the contract and the mandate
- How to become a volunteer syndic: from the general meeting vote to registration with the KBO/BCE
- Volunteer syndic pay: working it out, getting it voted, declaring it
- Syndic liability: proving the fault and obtaining compensation
- How to change syndic: procedure, timeline and handover of the records
- Dismiss the syndic: voting it at the GM, handling compensation and resignation
- Syndic contract: reread it clause by clause before you sign
The general meeting
- Organise a general meeting: preparing your GM without missing a deadline
- General meeting notice: drafting it, sending it and checking it
- General meeting minutes: drafting them, getting them signed and sending them out
- General meeting majorities: counting the votes without making mistakes
- Challenge a general meeting decision: identify the grievance and go to the justice of the peace
- Co-ownership council: setting it up, appointing its members and overseeing the syndic
Charges and accounts
- Co-ownership accounting in Belgium: keeping and checking the standard chart of accounts
- Co-ownership budget: drawing it up, voting on it, following it
- Reserve fund and working capital in a co-ownership: where your money goes, and what happens to it on a sale
- Annual service charge statement: checking it line by line before the GM
- Heating cost allocation in your co-ownership: checking your share of heating, energy and water
- Co-owner unpaid charges: reminders, formal notice and the justice of the peace
- Syndic fees: how to read, compare and renegotiate them
- Syndic cost in Belgium: judging the offers you receive
The law and the articles
- Acte de base and co-ownership regulations: reading and amending them
- Building house rules in Belgium: drafting them, amending them and enforcing them against tenants
- Owners’ association in Belgium: the VME/ACP that runs your building, and how to check it is in order
- Private and common parts: settling borderline cases and knowing who pays
- Co-owner rights and obligations: what you can demand, and what the building expects of you
- Co-ownership dispute: going to the justice of the peace, counting the deadline, trying conciliation
- Co-ownership glossary for Belgium: every term in a notice of meeting or service charge statement explained
Life in the building
- Co-ownership building works: deciding, funding and overseeing the job
- Common parts maintenance: organising it, budgeting for it, checking it
- Apartment building fire safety in Belgium: obligations, smoke alarms and works to vote on
- Co-ownership insurance: checking the building’s policy and filing a claim
- Volunteer syndic insurance: who takes it out, who pays, what it covers
- Water damage in your apartment and leaks: finding the source and getting it repaired
- Renovation grants in a co-ownership: where to start, from the common parts EPC
- Neighbour dispute in an apartment building: the steps that break the deadlock
Blog
- Banning Airbnb in your co-ownership: is it possible?
- Water damage in a co-ownership: the building or you?
- Works in your apartment: when the GM must vote
- GM minutes not received or incorrect: what now?
- Exceptional call for funds: the price of a thin reserve
- Syndic not responding: wait, dismiss or go to court?
- GM quorum not reached: what happens next?
- Getting an item onto the GM agenda
- Balcony: common or private part? Four answers
- Service charges when an apartment is sold: who pays?
- Checking your co-ownership's accounts, step by step
- Missing the GM: proxy or remote attendance?
- GM notice received too late: is the meeting valid?
- Volunteer syndic: does free come at a price?
- Taking over a syndic file mid-year: checklist