Whether you rent, own a unit or sit on a body corporate committee, someone needs to approve a camera before it goes up. Here is how it works.
You need the owner’s permission before fixing anything to a rental, and a camera is a fixture. Ask in writing through your property manager and keep the reply.
Queensland changed its rental laws in 2023. Tenants can now ask for some minor modifications, and owners can only say no on set grounds. Whether a particular camera counts as a minor modification is something to confirm with your property manager or the Residential Tenancies Authority before buying anything.
If drilling is off the table, battery cameras on removable brackets and battery doorbells come down without marks at the end of the lease. They have limits, covered in our wired versus wireless guide, but they are better than nothing.
Exterior cameras protect the property between tenancies and help tenants feel safer. They should cover the driveway, entrances and outside areas only, never the inside of a tenanted home. Put it in writing who controls the system and who gets access. Many owners give the tenant app access to the cameras covering their own entry.
Logan has a lot of townhouse complexes, especially through Springwood, Underwood, Marsden, Waterford West, Loganlea and Eagleby. These schemes have common property, owned by the body corporate. Under Queensland body corporate law, cameras on common property need approval from the committee, and some schemes have by-laws that also control changes to how a lot looks from outside.
For an individual owner, a camera on your own garage door, front entry or courtyard is usually the easiest to get approved. For a committee, a shared system covering the main gate, visitor parking, the letterboxes and the bin enclosure tends to solve more problems for more people.
A body corporate system needs clear rules: who can view live, who can play back, how footage is released to owners or police, and how long it is kept. We set up access to match, usually with the body corporate manager or a nominated committee member holding the master account.
In a complex, every camera is near someone else’s door. Cameras get aimed at your own entry and the shared areas that need covering, and privacy masks black out neighbours’ windows and courtyards so their private space stays private.
A battery doorbell that does not need wiring or drilling is usually the least intrusive option, but any fixture still needs the owner's written consent. Ask your property manager first.
Usually the body corporate, from its funds, after the committee or a general meeting approves it. Your scheme's by-laws and the size of the spend decide which.
Visitor parking is common property, so a camera aimed at it is a body corporate matter. A camera on your own garage or courtyard is simpler.
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