Being a trustee of a body corporate is often a thankless task, but also a position that is seldom occupied by someone deemed to be adequately qualified to carry such tremendous responsibility. Trustees have a fiduciary duty to administer the body corporate’s financials on behalf of its members.
Did you know that many bodies corporate lose money on insurance premiums by skimping on the valuation? In some cases, the reason might be that the body corporate has not met its obligation to obtain the mandatory 3-yearly replacement cost valuation – this usually leads to over-escalating the sum insured by applying the same “on-the-safe-side” escalation rate of 10% year after year.