Body Corporate Gold Coast exists to help committees and owners make better decisions about body corporate and strata management. The information we publish is read by people who are trying to work out what their rights are, what the committee can and cannot do, what their levies pay for, and whether their current manager is doing a reasonable job. That is a lot of weight to carry, so we take our content seriously.

This page sets out how we write, who reviews what, what sources we rely on, and how we correct anything we get wrong.

Who writes our content

Every page and post on this site is written by Jeff Blaszkowski, founder of Body Corporate Gold Coast.

Jeff’s 12+ years in Queensland strata have been on the business development side, not as a licensed strata manager. He started in management rights support at Burleigh Tourism, moved into onsite management, and then joined Accor as a Business Development Manager looking after a portfolio of more than 40 hotels operating under management-letting-rights arrangements. From there he moved into Business Development roles at Smarter Communities and Bright and Duggan, building relationships with committees, onboarding new schemes, and handling the conversations that happen before, during, and after a committee decides to change or appoint a manager.

Jeff is also a strata owner himself. That matters because it gives him both the industry-side perspective, from years of conversations with committees, owners, and onsite managers, and the owner-side perspective, from reading his own levy notices, sitting through his own AGMs, and weighing the same decisions everyone else in a scheme weighs.

To be clear about what this experience is and is not: Jeff has not sat in the strata manager’s chair. He has not prepared sinking fund forecasts, chaired a scheme’s financial accounts, or held a strata management licence. What he has done is sit across the table from hundreds of committees as a BDM, listen to what they wanted from their manager, watch what they chose and why, and see which schemes ran well and which did not, while also living inside a strata scheme as an owner. That is the perspective this site is written from.

Jeff holds a Certificate IV in Property Services and a Real Estate Agent Licence (currently inactive). His LinkedIn profile is at linkedin.com/in/jeffblaz.

How we write

We write in plain English. Not because body corporate is simple, but because the people reading this site are usually not lawyers or strata professionals. They are owners, committee members, and occasionally tenants trying to work out what the rules actually mean in practice.

The legislation is written in a way that assumes you already know what a scheme is. We write as if you have never been on a committee before, because plenty of our readers have not.

A few lines we try not to cross:

We explain, we do not advise. Articles set out how things generally work, what the options usually look like, and what questions to ask. We do not tell you what to do in your specific situation. Where a reader’s question has legal, financial, or scheme-specific weight, we point them to a qualified strata professional, lawyer, or the relevant regulator.
We keep it plain, not legislative. Where legislation is relevant we say what it means in practice and link to the source. We do not try to paraphrase whole sections or act as a statutory reference.
We write from the BDM side. Jeff’s observations throughout the site are from the business development / committee-facing side of the industry. Where an article draws on practical experience, that is the experience it is drawing on.

Every article is built from a combination of three things:

The primary legislation. For Queensland, that is the Body Corporate and Community Management Act 1997 and its five regulation modules. For New South Wales, that is the Strata Schemes Management Act 2015 and the Strata Schemes Development Act 2015. Where a claim rests on the legislation, we cite the relevant Act.
Regulator guidance. The Queensland Government’s body corporate information pages, the Commissioner for Body Corporate and Community Management, NSW Fair Trading, QCAT, and NCAT all publish guidance that clarifies how the legislation is applied in practice. We draw on this heavily.
BDM-side experience and first-hand ownership. Jeff has had hundreds of conversations with committees, chairs, treasurers, owners, onsite managers, and strata colleagues about why schemes do or do not work well. He also owns in a strata scheme himself. Where the article includes practical observation, that is the source of it.

We do not use AI to write our content. We do use it as a research aid and a proof-reading aid, in the same way a writer might use a dictionary or a grammar checker.

What we do not do

We do not provide legal, financial, or strata advice. Every article carries a general information disclaimer. If a reader’s situation has any complexity or dispute attached to it, we point them toward a qualified strata professional, lawyer, or the relevant regulator.

We do not write sponsored content. No partner, manager, or advertiser can buy placement in our editorial content, recommendations, or site rankings. Our commercial relationships are disclosed separately and do not influence what we say in articles or on the site.

We do not scrape or rehash. Every article is original writing, based on the sources above.

How content is reviewed

Before publication, every article is checked against a short list:

Is the article written in plain English, the way a committee member or an owner would actually read it?
Where the article touches on legislation, does it link to the primary source rather than paraphrasing it?
Are the Queensland and New South Wales distinctions flagged clearly (body corporate vs owners corporation, BCCM Act vs Strata Schemes Management Act)?
Does the article stay on its lane as general information, and point the reader toward a qualified strata professional, lawyer, or regulator where the question is specific to their scheme?
Is the tone approachable and consistent with how we write everywhere else on the site?

Knowledge Hub category pages include a visible “last updated” date. Where legislation changes, a regulator issues new guidance, or we become aware that an article no longer reflects current practice, the article is updated and the date is revised.

Updates and versioning

Body corporate and strata legislation changes. Regulation modules are amended, fee thresholds shift, by-law rules are revised, and tribunal decisions reshape how the legislation is applied. We review our content on a rolling basis and update articles as needed.

The “last updated” date on every Knowledge Hub page reflects the most recent editorial review.

Corrections

If you believe something on this site is wrong, out of date, or misleading, let us know. We take corrections seriously and treat them as an opportunity to do better, not an embarrassment to be managed.

Our corrections policy, including how to contact us and what we publish when we update an article, is on our Corrections Policy page.

Commercial relationships

Body Corporate Gold Coast is a proposal-request service. Committees and owners use the site to request up to three proposals from established and trusted panel managers. Partner managers pay a referral fee to BCGC per proposal request submitted. BCGC has no role in the appointment decision, receives no ongoing commission, and is not paid more or less based on which manager a committee ultimately selects.

This is disclosed on the homepage, on the Our Partners page, and on the About page.