With so many people ripping up old carpet – it’s so-o-o-o 20th century – and replacing its excellent insulation qualities with a layer of varnish, it’s no wonder people downstairs are getting agitated. But need they? QUESTION: Our apartment is all brick and concrete floor slabs and we would love to put in a ‘floating’ [...]

There is a myth in strataland that Unit Entitlements are set in concrete (no pun intended). UEs are the figure on which your levies are calculated, based on the size and position of your apartment. The bigger the apartment, the higher the UEs, the more you pay … in theory. But a very common way [...]

Worried about the ban on smoking in apartments? According to the ABC TV news, it was “tough new laws giving more power to owners corporations” that forced two dedicated puffers out of their rented apartment at the prestigious Highgate building in Sydney’s CBD. Talk about smoke and mirrors. These ‘tough new laws’ were enacted in [...]

FLAT CHAT Jimmy Thomson Tomorrow sees the start of a campaign to correct one of the anomalies of the NSW strata legislation, concerning the keeping of poets in apartment buildings. A misprint in the original strata laws means owners’ corporations have the right to forbid owners from keeping poets in their apartments, townhouses or retirement [...]