NSW Fair Trading have released the details of their emergency accommodation package for residents evacuated from Mascot Tower and it includes a few interesting exclusions. For instance, people staying with…
The arrival of online short-term rental sites such as Airbnb and others, created a whole new landlord-tenant relationship: one where owners, or ‘hosts’, are encouraged to provide all sorts of…
There are periodically so many discussions and debates about laundry on balconies that the issue has it’s own section in the Flat Chat Forum. But it’s not the sight of…
This week in the Podcast we look at the Mascot Tower story and the apparently generous offer by Fair Trading to bankroll emergency accommodation for residents. They are saying it’s…
The advice from Owners Corporation Network spokesman Stephen Goddard could not have been more blunt: Don’t buy apartments off the plan. His actual words in an opinion piece in the…
Victorian apartment residents have at least another 20 months of disruption to deal with – probably more – according to a response we received from the Government there about any…
It’s been a while since we’ve had a forum post about a committee that’s gone “rogue” – making decisions without consulting other owners and awarding themselves all sorts of perks.…
For obvious reasons, our podcast this week is about the Mascot Tower crisis. We recorded the podcast before we were aware of the story in today’s Financial Review revealing that…
It’s hard to know exactly how to respond to the chaos at Mascot Towers. If you haven’t heard, last weekend hundreds of residents were forced to leave a South Sydney…
Our podcast hosting service, Castos.com, has provided a new service – converting our audio clips into a text service – so we thought we’d give it a spin as most…
It’s been a bit quiet on the Forum front, what with the long weekend and all. But the saddest story of the week is probably the smallest in terms of…
Since our last podcast took us to Russia, we thought we’d stay a lot closer to home with this week’s. A story in the Australian newspaper caught our eye, concerning…
Do you ever get the urge to stand for election to your strata committee? Are you convinced you could do a better job than the existing members? Do you want…
Australian apartment owners in buildings fitted with flammable cladding face bills of up to one quarter of the value of their homes, according to a new report. And state governments…
Our Forum posts about the building that wants to ban children from its swimming pool has ruffled a few feathers. First of all there was a flurry of appalled and angry messages (which you can…
There`s been a lot going on in the world of short-term holiday letting, with local news like out-of-control parties and and a global backlash in world cities that are being…
An interesting yarn has come our way via our friends at the Owners Corporation Network. It seems relatives and neighbours in a block were concerned that one of the residents…
A big chunk of this week’s podcast is taken up with discussing how worried we should be about the defamation case taken by the chairman of a small strata building…