'Strengthening Autonomous Management of Multi-Unit Buildings'... Gyeonggi-do, Nationwide First Management Appointment Consulting

Gyeonggi Province is launching a new pilot project called the 'Consulting Support for Appointment of Building Managers in Multi-Unit Buildings' to respect the principle of private autonomy in multi-unit buildings and enable unit owners or residents to resolve issues and decide on management methods by themselves.

This project was proposed at the multi-unit building management improvement meeting held in January between the province, city/county governments, and private experts. The core of the project is that local governments will provide professional consulting for the first time nationwide, allowing residents to hold management association meetings and appoint their own managers independently.

In multi-unit buildings, a management association composed of unit owners must hold a meeting to select a manager (representative) to receive management rights from the developer or contractor and carry out autonomous management.

However, due to the indifference of unit owners engaged in their livelihoods and their lack of experience and legal knowledge regarding building management, residents have relied on the unilateral building management by management companies hired by developers or contractors.

Gyeonggi Provincial Government

As a result, many disputes have continuously occurred due to high management fees, unilateral management by entrusted management companies, passive responses to living complaints, and opaque accounting management.

Gyeonggi Province will select two multi-unit buildings that have not elected a manager even once, with more than 150 unit ownerships and within five years after use approval (reflecting the defect liability period), and provide support up to five times until the management association meeting for electing a manager is held.

If selected for support, lawyers, housing managers, and others will visit the site directly and provide customized consulting to residents and others until the manager appointment meeting is held, including ▲ how to convene the meeting ▲ priority agenda items ▲ management of proxies and written resolution methods ▲ meeting procedures.

Gyeonggi Province plans to analyze the response of multi-unit building residents to the pilot project and its effectiveness to promote expansion plans.

Park Jong-geun, Director of the Architecture Policy Division of Gyeonggi Province, said, "Although management association meetings in multi-unit buildings are important procedures that determine the rights and obligations of residents, many have faced difficulties due to the indifference and lack of expertise of unit owners. We hope this pilot project will serve as a catalyst for multi-unit buildings struggling to appoint managers."

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