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Small Strata Building Survival Kit

A 16-page kit for BC stratas under 20 units: screening scripts, service choices, fee benchmarks, a file checklist and council burnout indicators.

How can a small BC strata find management support?

A small BC strata should first screen for firms that accept buildings under 20 units, then decide whether it needs full service, limited service, financial-only support, or a hybrid council-led model.

Small buildings need to avoid a specific failure: spending weeks contacting firms that were never likely to quote. This expanded kit gives council the screening language, budget range, and operating rhythm to call the right firms first.

The PDF includes:

  • a toolkit map for small-building councils
  • the small-building pain inventory
  • firm-side economics for why firms decline small buildings
  • a nine-item council readiness check
  • a four-option service-level decision table, including hybrid
  • small-building fee benchmark ranges
  • a capacity-screening script and firm response log
  • first-call agenda and bad-fit questions
  • minimum viable management-file checklist
  • monthly operating rhythm with council time estimates
  • council burnout indicators
  • BC-specific source notes and source links

The first filter is not price. It is whether the firm accepts buildings your size at all.

Prefer to read first? The guide this packet comes from explains it before council uses it.