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What Committees Ask Us First

01

Is There a Cost to the Owners Corporation?

No. Residents pay for their own weekly plans or one-off orders. The owners corporation pays no setup fee, no equipment cost and no ongoing charge, and there is no levy impact of any kind.

02

Do We Need a By-Law Change?

In most schemes, no. Collections happen at the concierge desk or in the mailroom, with no fixtures, no storage build and no alteration to common property. We can supply a written summary for your papers.

03

What About Insurance and Liability?

Garments are tagged and tracked from your desk to our facility and back, and are covered by our insurance while in our care. Your building manager receives a record of every handover, so responsibility is never ambiguous.

04

Will It Add Work for Building Staff?

About two minutes per pickup. We brief the concierge team, supply the tags and signage, and collect on fixed days, 7 days a week. Nothing is left at the desk overnight.

How the Arrangement Works

1. Committee Summary

We send a one-page summary you can table at a committee or general meeting, covering cost (none), insurance, the handover process and contacts.

2. Building Manager Setup

Once the committee is comfortable, we work with your building manager or concierge company to confirm the route and the desk handover.

3. Resident Launch

Residents receive a notice, lobby signage and a booking link specific to your building, with an introductory offer for the first order.

4. Ongoing Review

The arrangement can be reviewed at any meeting and paused or ended at any time, with no cost or penalty to the owners corporation.

For Your Committee Papers

No cost, levy or contract for the owners corporation

Revenue-sharing opportunities for management partners

No common-property works, fixtures or by-law changes required

Marketing and onboarding support materials

Insurance and garment-tracking documentation supplied on request

A one-page summary ready to table at your next meeting

Request the Committee Summary

Email info@conciergedrycleaners.com.au with your building name and your strata manager’s details, and we will send the one-page summary within one business day.

Your building manager may also want the building manager page, or an overview of how the service works for buildings.

Does this need a by-law?

For most schemes, no. The reason is that we install nothing.

Under the Strata Schemes Management Act 2015 (NSW), the approvals that create work for a committee are generally triggered by physical change to common property or by granting a party exclusive use of part of it. Adding to, altering or erecting a structure on common property engages section 108. A licence to use common property engages section 112. Exclusive use or a special privilege requires a by-law, passed by special resolution at a general meeting, together with the written consent of any owner directly affected.

A locker bank engages all of that. It takes floor space in the lobby, it usually needs power, it is a structure, and it typically needs an exclusive-use by-law before it can be fixed in place. That is why locker proposals take months and often stall.

A concierge-desk service does not. We put no equipment in the building. We occupy no floor space. We alter nothing and we ask for no exclusive right over any part of the common property. A resident leaves a bag at a desk that already receives parcels, and a driver collects it the way any courier does.

Ordinary resolution, special resolution, or neither

Committees usually land in one of three places, and it is worth being clear which one applies before it reaches an agenda.

  • Neither. Many buildings treat a no-cost, no-equipment courier-style arrangement as an operational matter for the building manager, in the same way parcel deliveries are handled.
  • A committee decision. Under section 36, a strata committee decision is a decision of the owners corporation, except on restricted matters. A committee can generally approve a no-cost trial. It cannot make or amend by-laws, set levies, or approve improvements to common property.
  • A general meeting. Needed if the scheme decides to grant any exclusive use, permit an installation, or enter a formal licence over common property. Our model is designed so this is not required.

This is general information, not legal advice, and every scheme differs. Confirm the position with your strata manager. We will provide whatever you need in writing so you can put an accurate question to them.

Conflict of interest and commission disclosure

NSW strata law was tightened through 2025. Strata managers must disclose commissions and connected service providers. Building managers must disclose benefits they may receive from entering a contract, and any pre-existing relationship with a contractor. Penalties apply.

Our position is straightforward. If a revenue share or referral arrangement exists with your building manager or concierge company, it is documented in writing and provided to you so it can be disclosed and minuted. If a supplier is reluctant to tell your committee how the money moves, the committee has learned something useful.

What to put in the committee papers

We supply a one-page summary you can attach without rewriting. It covers:

  • Cost to the owners corporation: none. No setup, no equipment, no ongoing charge, no levy impact.
  • Common property: no installation, no floor space, no exclusive use, no alteration.
  • Insurance: our certificates of currency, including cover for goods in our care, custody and control.
  • Liability: where responsibility sits at each point of the handover, in writing.
  • Concierge workload: roughly two minutes per collection, with the desk handling no money and no sorting.
  • Disclosure: any commission or revenue share, stated plainly.
  • Exit: how the scheme ends it, and what has to be unwound (nothing).

How to trial it without committing the scheme

We recommend a trial rather than a decision. Because there is no cost, no contract and no equipment, ending a trial means telling us to stop coming. Nothing has to be removed, refunded or unwound, and the scheme carries no residual obligation.

A sensible trial runs for one quarter, with an agreed review at the next committee meeting. We provide a short report at the end covering uptake, collections run and any incidents, so the committee is deciding on evidence from your own building rather than on our marketing.

Questions committees ask

Does the owners corporation take on any liability?

Custody passes to us when our driver signs for the bags at the desk. Our insurance covers garments while they are in our care. We provide certificates of currency on request and will name the owners corporation as an interested party.

Will this affect our strata insurance?

Confirm with your broker, as every policy differs. Because nothing is installed and no common property is altered or exclusively used, most schemes find there is nothing to notify beyond the usual contractor arrangements.

Do residents have to use it?

No. It is available to residents who want it and invisible to those who do not. Nobody is charged anything by the scheme.

What if the building changes strata or building managers?

The arrangement sits with the building, not the manager. A new manager can continue it, review it or end it.

Email info@conciergedrycleaners.com.au with your building name and your strata manager’s details, and we will send the one-page summary within one business day. Your building manager may also want the building manager page.

Last reviewed and updated 8 September 2026. Written for Sydney building managers, strata committees and building operators by Concierge Dry Cleaners. General information only, not legal advice.