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Courts get tough on sectional title owners

Trustees and managing agents have the right to disconnect the electricity of owners who are in arrears with their levies. Picture: Gelgas Airlangga/Pexels
Courts get tough on sectional title owners who don’t pay levies

Some residents of sectional title complexes have found themselves in the dark after failing to pay their levies and electricity charges.

The courts are not sympathetic to sectional title property owners who are accumulating substantial arrear levies and electricity charges, says BBM Law director Marina Constas.

Court action may be a “tough step” for the trustees to take, but in the current challenging financial times, body corporates are struggling and cannot carry the substantial debts that are being racked up by non-payment of levies.