Archive for July, 2008

Reasons to be cheerful

Saturday, July 26th, 2008

In this column’s relentless campaign to act as both problem solver and trouble-maker, it’s sometimes easy to lose sight of why we live in apartments in the first place. The most obvious is location. You can live extremely comfortably in or near the city centre for a fraction of what it would cost to have [...]

Send in the clowns

Saturday, July 19th, 2008

NB: There’s anothere reader’s horror story at the end of this column. eedback has been flooding in since we took a pop at the Consumer, Trader and Tenancy Tribunal a couple of weeks ago. “We read your article out loud … amidst laughter and nods of agreement. Clowns indeed,” wrote one real estate agent. “The [...]