Duncan Gordon

Review of Hynes Lawyers

We purchased a complex in August 2015. The Manager...

We purchased a complex in August 2015. The Manager selling had just received a five year top up from the Body Corporate and immediately marketed the complex. One can understand that the Body Corporate was going to feel very dubious about giving a new manager a second 5 year top up within a short space of time. We realised that there was a level of anger among the Owners Corporation as to how they had been treated by the previous Manager over the agreement extension.
Hynes Legal put out very good publications on various matters arising when one owns Management Rights. We, ourselves, have also been in the profession of Management Rights for some 23 years and have in the past negotiated very successfully with Body's Corporate for Management Rights extensions.
With our knowledge and solid advice from Hynes Legal we were able to effect an extremely satisfactory outcome with our extension. The paperwork, back up and proposed wording of letters to owners is all of tremendous help. Of course to make things go even smoother a Manager must develop a close working relationship with the Owners Corporation and Body Corporate Committee. From our point of view the relationship we developed very quickly with the Owners Corporation and Body Corporate combined with the use of Hynes Legal's expertise everything went through very smoothly unopposed.
We would like to place on record our thanks to Frank Higginson and his support crew at Hynes Legal for a very successful, easy and unstressed outcome.