Your chance to ask or answer questions about strata – or just read about other people’s issues.
Welcome to the Flat Chat Forum where your questions can be answered by me (JimmyT), one of our Stratagurus, industry experts or other readers who’ve had similar issues. Anyone can read all the material but you have to register (just once) and log in (each session) to ask or answer questions. NB: When you register, please do not use your real name or email address as your screen name. Identifying yourself also identifies anyone you are complaining about and that could lead to legal problems.
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From the Front Page
Comment on our stories and posts
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- Reply To: Vote on your favourite low-rise strata design – poll 6 hours, 35 minutes ago
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From the Front Page
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Common Property
Who owns what and what can you do
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- Reply To: BBQ on Common Property conundrum 1 day ago
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Common Property
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By-laws and outlaws
Rules, regulations ... and rebels
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- Reply To: By law forcing owner to pay Insurance excess 1 day, 2 hours ago
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By-laws and outlaws
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New to strata – or just strata-curious
Welcome to the wonderful world of strata living
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- Reply To: What is a reasonable increase in levies? 2 days, 10 hours ago
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New to strata – or just strata-curious
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Pets: Furry friends … or fiends?
Animals in apartments and all that entails
- Pets (Victoria)
The effect of slightly pet-friendlier laws
- Pets (Victoria)
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- Reply To: Why would my OC need a new by-law on dogs 3 days, 9 hours ago
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Pets: Furry friends … or fiends?
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Strata Committees
Kind hearts and control freaks
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- Reply To: Is photography allowed during inspection of Records (VIC)? 2 months, 1 week ago
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Strata Committees
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The Professionals
Strata managers, lawyers, building managers etc
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- Reply To: $247.50 an hour to prepare strata records? WA 1 week ago
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The Professionals
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Parking Peeves
The perpetual pain of rogue parkers
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- Reply To: Can strata schemes really call in council parking rangers? 1 week ago
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Parking Peeves
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Talkin’ ’bout a renovation
Blame TV's the Block for reno rage
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- Reply To: Long wait for reno approval 1 week, 4 days ago
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Talkin’ ’bout a renovation
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Living in strata
Odds and ends from daily strata living
- Strata living in Queensland
Strata laws are very different in Queensland - from two-tier levies to 25-year management contracts. Here are some examples of Qld-specific strife - Living in Victoria strata
Odds and ends from daily strata living in Victoria where the strata laws are just a bit different
- Strata living in Queensland
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- Reply To: Replacing dud committee with professional management 2 weeks, 6 days ago
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Living in strata
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Rental rants
Tenants and landlords have their say
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- Reply To: What’s the point of an Airbnb list that no one can access? 3 weeks ago
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Rental rants
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Hard floors and tough decisions
Stamping out the stomps and clomps
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- Reply To: Noisy families leave me floored 3 weeks ago
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Hard floors and tough decisions
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Levies and Unit Entitlements
What you pay and why you pay it
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- Reply To: Unreasonable special levies -WA 3 weeks, 1 day ago
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Levies and Unit Entitlements
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NCAT – the NSW Tribunal
The body that decides what's right and who's wrong
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- Reply To: Can an owner take the Strata Manager to NCAT for failure to perform duties? 3 weeks, 5 days ago
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NCAT – the NSW Tribunal
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Buying and Selling
The biggest deal most of us will ever do
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- Reply To: Where do we get info on works in progress? 4 weeks, 1 day ago
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Buying and Selling
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Proxies – blind faith or good sense?
Ruling the roost with a fistful of votes
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- Reply To: 3 votes in a complex of 10 – a red flag? 1 month, 3 weeks ago
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Proxies – blind faith or good sense?
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Airbnb and holiday lets
When holiday rentals are no fun for residents
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- Reply To: What are the true figures on Airbnb? 2 months, 2 weeks ago
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Airbnb and holiday lets
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Neighbour noise
Are your neighbours too noisy ... or too nosy?
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- Reply To: Sound recording devices for fighting noise allegations 3 months, 3 weeks ago
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Neighbour noise
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Collective sales – the 75 percent solution
How 75 percent of strata owners in NSW can compel the others to sell
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- Reply To: Strata manager pushing us to sell to developer 3 months, 4 weeks ago
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Collective sales – the 75 percent solution
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Smoke gets in your eyes
... from neighbours' units, balconies and common property
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- Reply To: Smoke drift in Canberra 4 months ago
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Smoke gets in your eyes
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How to use this forum
A simple guide to getting your message across. Please IGNORE the "start new topic" button. Please do not post or ask questions in this section - find one closest to your topic or you risk all your hard work and urgent questions being automatically binned.
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- Is your post missing? 5 months ago
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How to use this forum
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Is it really easy being green?
Greening your block to save money ... and the planet
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- Reply To: Can unit blocks get support for installing solar power? 1 year ago
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Is it really easy being green?
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Community Title
Community, Precinct and Neighbourhood Associations
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Community Title
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Dirty Linen
Drying laundry on balconies - the debate heats up
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- Reply To: Hung out to dry over laundry 1 year, 7 months ago
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Dirty Linen
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Company Title
And you thought strata law was complicated ...
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- Reply To: Company Title to Strata conversion concern 1 year, 8 months ago
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Company Title
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Two-unit strata
Duplexes and villas - a problem shared is a problem doubled
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- Reply To: Is merging two lots into one a good idea or a waste of time and money? 1 year, 8 months ago
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Two-unit strata
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Why I love apartment living
It's not all doom and gloom and apartment living can be great when you get it right. Can't it? Say something positive right here.
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- Reply To: No worries, mate 4 years, 8 months ago
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Why I love apartment living