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      <title>How much should a Johannesburg body corporate hold in its reserve fund under the Sectional Titles Schemes Management Act?</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Sectional Titles Schemes Management Act sets a minimum reserve-fund contribution that every body corporate in Johannesburg must meet. Here is the formula, how it connects to the 10-year maintenance plan, the trustee liability if it is under-funded, and a worked example for a 40-unit Sandton scheme.]]></description>
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      <title>Levy Clearance Certificates and the Importance of Accurate Community Accounting in South African Property Transfers</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Levy clearance certificates are one of the most operationally critical components of the South African sectional title and HOA transfer process. Without an accurate clearance figure, transfers stall, registration is delayed and financial risk multiplies — making accurate accounting, real-time receivable visibility and integrated utility reconciliation operational necessities for any modern managing agent.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Sectional Title Reserve Funds and the 10-Year Maintenance Plan</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Every sectional title body corporate in South Africa is legally required to maintain a written 10-year maintenance, repair and replacement plan and a separately funded reserve fund. Schemes that take these obligations seriously avoid surprise special levies, protect property values and maintain long-term financial stability.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Rental Collections Made Easy Through Regulated Debit Order Collection</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[When rental collection depends on a tenant remembering to make an EFT each month, late payments are inevitable. Mosaic Home Services operates as a PASA-registered Third-Party Payment Provider, collecting rent directly on the contractual due date through the regulated banking payment rail.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Johannesburg Managing Agent Services</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mosaic Community Services delivers specialist managing agent services to sectional title schemes, homeowners’ associations, apartment developments and residential communities across Johannesburg and South Africa — protecting community assets, improving operational efficiency and supporting trustees.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Johannesburg Rental Administration Services</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Effective rental administration in Johannesburg demands more than rent collection. Mosaic Home Services provides structured, technology-enabled rental administration for property owners, investors and residential portfolios across Gauteng — protecting rental income, reducing administrative burden and improving long-term property performance.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>How a PPA Trust Account Protects a Property Owner’s Rent in South Africa</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Every rental administrator in South Africa must hold tenant rent in a regulated trust account under the Property Practitioners Act, audited annually and supervised by the PPRA. Mosaic Home Services does not commingle: a separate regulated trust account is opened in the owner’s name for every property-owner record, ring-fenced from Mosaic, and visible directly to the owner on the bank’s own platform 24/7.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Prepaid Utility Management Services in Johannesburg</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mosaic Wallet provides a modern prepaid utility management platform designed for sectional title schemes, residential estates, property owners and rental portfolios across Johannesburg and South Africa — combining utility technology, administration, reporting and collections integration into a unified platform focused on operational efficiency and financial control.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>IoT Utility Metering and the Future of Community Management in South Africa</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Eskom, City Power and Johannesburg Water tariffs continue to rise above inflation. For sectional title schemes, estates and HOAs, IoT smart-metering technologies — LoRa, NB-IoT and Sigfox — are reshaping utility recovery, replacing manual readings and delayed reconciliation with real-time consumption visibility.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Traditional access control — manual registers, outdated intercoms, fragmented databases — struggles to meet modern expectations. Online community portals, GSM gate systems and biometric access combine to deliver secure, resident-managed, real-time access administration for Johannesburg residential communities.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Radical Transparency and the Future of Community Management in South Africa</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Most community disputes are caused by delayed access to information, not bad intentions. Mosaic Community Portal gives owners real-time visibility into bank feed activity, receivable balances and management accounts — replacing limited-visibility models with a transparent operating standard.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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