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Forum: Unfinancialized by a sneaky strata managerPodcast: Which apartment tribe do you belong to?Law change survey leads to our strata manifestoCouncil where Company Title was compulsoryForum: Landlady dives in before tenant has left
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Forum: Unfinancialized by a sneaky strata manager

  • 12/01/2021
  • Author Jimmy-T

One of the suggestions that I made in my overly lengthy submission to the strata law consultations was that seriously incompetent strata managers should face serious penalties, including potentially being…

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    Podcast: Which apartment tribe do you belong to?

    • 12/01/2021
    • Author Jimmy-T

    Do you know what your strata-living tribe is? Are you economically engaged, young and jobless or under-employed, battlers, established owners, downsizers or even public housing tenants? Professor Bill Randolph of…

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      Law change survey leads to our strata manifesto

      • 11/01/2021
      • Author Jimmy-T

      This week, I slipped down the ultimate strata rabbit hole – NSW Fair Trading’s consultation questionnaire in which they invite us to tell them how we think strata laws could…

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        Council where Company Title was compulsory

        • 10/01/2021
        • Author Jimmy-T

        You may find this hard to believe but there was a local council in Sydney which, until a couple of years ago, would not  give planning approval for two-unit strata…

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          Forum: Landlady dives in before tenant has left

          • 05/01/2021
          • Author Jimmy-T

          When does a residential lease end? According to the standard lease (in Victoria) it’s on the date when the lease expires, unless a different arrangement is agreed. According to Tenants…

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            Podcast: What a great year … for pets and renters

            • 04/01/2021
            • Author Jimmy-T

            This week’s podcast may be the first of 2021 but 2020 doesn’t get away that easily. Last year will be remembered in global politics as the year of Brexit, Trump,…

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              Closures mask possibilities of sharing facilities

              • 04/01/2021
              • Author Jimmy-T

              We received a plaintive “please explain” on the Flat Chat website recently.  A reader wanted to know why their swimming pool and spa remained resolutely closed when the rest of…

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                Forum: resident vents over neighbour’s scents

                • 29/12/2020
                • Author Jimmy-T

                Sometimes the dumbest problems in strata are cause by the simplest, most innocent actions … usually allied to people not thinking things through. Take Flatchatter Wangdang whose small block has…

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                  Building pressure as more developers cut and run

                  • 29/12/2020
                  • Author Jimmy-T

                  A story in the Sydney Morning Herald last week should have sent an unseasonal chill through the corridors of NSW Fair Trading and the whole of the state Government. In…

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                    Podcast: Fun and games as the Wrap takes off

                    • 29/12/2020
                    • Author Jimmy-T

                    OK, stop, relax, breathe. We’re not taking a break these holidays so much as easing our collective foot off the gas We thought that, rather than drag someone out of…

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                      Our stressful year of strategic strata living

                      • 28/12/2020
                      • Author Jimmy-T

                      Covid or no covid, it’s been a tempestuous year in strata in Australia.  From a win for pet owners in NSW to dubious stats from Tasmania, there’s been plenty to…

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                        Bathroom blues swept away by sea of greens

                        • 23/12/2020
                        • Author Jimmy-T

                        Bathroom Chronicles, Part 12 Enough of this whingeing – we love our new bathrooms.  Why the complaints? Maybe we were too close to it and saw the sausages being made,…

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                          Forum: Can I be sued over a climb and fall risk?

                          • 22/12/2020
                          • Author Jimmy-T

                          So, you’re living in a block where the powers that be don’t want to spend any money on anything. Trouble is, it has lovely old iron lace balustrades on which…

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                            Block party planning and the vax of the matter

                            • 22/12/2020
                            • Author Jimmy-T

                            There’s an old saying: “if you want to make God laugh, tell him you have a plan.” When this column appeared in the Australian Financial Review last week, it opened…

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                              Podcast: Want chips with that (plus radio spot)?

                              • 22/12/2020
                              • Author Jimmy-T

                              With Christmas rapidly approaching and Covid-19 closing in on us again, we thought about not doing  a full podcast this week. A quick intro and replay of Jimmy’s most recent…

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                                In strife but can’t even afford a lawyer’s letter?

                                • 22/12/2020
                                • Author Jimmy-T

                                We should never underestimate the power of a lawyer’s letter, especially in a strata dispute. At the very least, it lets the recipients know what the law is and, importantly,…

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                                  Forum: ‘No-pets’ by-laws dead so bans are bogus

                                  • 15/12/2020
                                  • Author Jimmy-T

                                  While some strata schemes struggle to deal with the fact that their “no pets” by-laws have been rendered obsolete by the recent NSW Court  of Appeal ruling, others seem to…

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                                    Podcast: Reno regrets and free strata legal advice

                                    • 15/12/2020
                                    • Author Jimmy-T

                                    It’s very much a tale of two slices of strata in this week’s Flat Chat Wrap podcast. To begin with, you can listen to two over-privileged, entitled professionals (us) whingeing…

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