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Welcome to Thinking Inside the Box

Living or working in a community scheme can be daunting. We understand. The legislation is complex and many people feel disempowered through not knowing enough about it … we are here to help!

Created by Jennifer Paddock, and driven by the team at Paddocks, this blog is here to inform, teach and delight you on all things community scheme management. We ultimately hope that the information we provide here will empower owners, trustees and chairpersons involved in community schemes, through better understanding their rights and duties, helping them to increase the value of their properties and create harmonious relations with their neighbours.

What do we do and more importantly, what can we do for you?

Paddocks is a specialist sectional title and home owners’ association firm that provides a range of products and services to anyone professionally or personally involved in community schemes.

For a list of our UCT online and self-paced short courses – Click here

For a list of our paperback books – Click here

For a list of our ebooks – Click here

Our support services:

• Paddocks Club is a sectional title and community scheme training initiative headed by Graham Paddock. It is an exclusive ongoing learning community driven by personalised support and coaching.
• Private Consulting is a service that provides bespoke expert advice, opinions and drafting, relevant to your particular community scheme issue by Graham Paddock, Zerlinda van der Merwe or Ané de Klerk.

Our freebies:

• Paddocks Press with over 11,000 subscribers, this is a free monthly digital newsletter published to educate and update the community scheme industry.
• Sectional Titles Online provides a platform for sectional title-related questions to be discussed by members of the sectional title community.

Who are we?

Paddocks is a specialist sectional title and home owners’ association firm based in Cape Town. It is lead by expert community scheme attorney and Graham Paddock who is an authority on the subject of sectional titles and other community schemes having specialised in this area for over 40 years. Graham was the head legal adviser to the government Department of Human Settlements in the overhaul of the sectional title legislation. He was the lead consultant to the DHS in the drafting of the Sectional Titles Schemes Management Act as well as the Community Schemes Ombuds Service Act.

Graham is assisted by Course Instructor and attorney, Ané de Klerk, as well as highly qualified admitted attorney, Zerlinda van der Merwe.

Paddocks is further driven by a team of passionate people with extensive skills in education, marketing and information technology.

For more information, contact us on info@paddocks.co.za or call +27(0) 21 686 3950

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