The new broom sweeping through the Office of Fair Trading has not only brushed up strata law but has scrubbed up its website too. If you can find it – the easiest way is to Google “NSW Fair Trading Strata” – you’ll discover all the information has been organised in a more logical fashion. For [...]

Many buildings have restrictions on residents owning pets and keeping them in their apartments – but what if the pet-lovers neither own nor keep them?  QUESTION: Eight feral cats hang around my building and another resident regularly feeds them which, of course, is why they hang around.  He’s pretty passionate about them, whereas the Executive [...]

QUESTION: Is it realistic to expect co-operation in observance of the strata by-laws by residents of apartment blocks? Our strata management agency recently told us that it is useless to request that the by-laws be observed because the legal cost of enforcement is too great. By-laws prohibiting the display of laundry and storage of large [...]