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Forum: Parking vigilante is breaking the law

  • 06/04/2021
  • Author Jimmy-T

Let’s be honest, if you’ve ever found someone else’s car in your parking spot, you’ll have been tempted just to park in behind it and leave it there, ignoring pleas…

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    Rents drop dramatically as apartment vacancies soar

    • 06/04/2021
    • Author Jimmy-T

    There’s more bad news for apartment investors – which means good news for renters – as rents plummet and availability of units soars in Sydney and Melbourne. This is in…

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      Podcast: States’ split is rental as anything

      • 06/04/2021
      • Author Jimmy-T

      This week, having survived a computer crisis on the home office front, we delve deeper into the differences between the way renters are treated in Victoria and NSW. In the…

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        Riding shotgun with our building commish

        • 06/04/2021
        • Author Jimmy-T

        A couple of weeks ago, Sydney Morning Herald and Domain contributor Sue Williams accepted an invitation to see Building Commissioner David Chandler in action on a development site. How do…

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          Forum: Neighbour throws shade on plan to cut canes

          • 30/03/2021
          • Author Jimmy-T

          What’s that thing they say about the squeaky wheel always getting the oil?  In strata, it’s more likely to be the loudest voice that’s the only one heard. However, some…

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            Podcast: Meditations on a block of Wellness

            • 30/03/2021
            • Author Jimmy-T

            In what turned out to be a fairly hectic week we hit a very welcome speedbump in the form of enforced rest and relaxation at a new apartment block launch,…

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              Tale of two states as ‘no fault’ evictions under fire

              • 30/03/2021
              • Author Jimmy-T

              It’s been very much a tale of two cities (and states) for renters in Sydney and Melbourne this past week. As of last Sunday, Victorian tenants no longer have the…

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                RE ‘experts’ on better service exclude customers

                • 30/03/2021
                • Author Jimmy-T

                If there was any doubt which side of the great strata divide Fair Trading is on – between those who make money from Real Estate and those who live in…

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                  Party flats and the invisible airbnb blacklist

                  • 30/03/2021
                  • Author Jimmy-T

                  Party animals and horrible hosts beware! Breaches of the NSW holiday rental Code of Conduct are already being pursued and hosts and guests face being blacklisted – even though the NSW…

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                    Forum: Storing trouble over parking spaces

                    • 23/03/2021
                    • Author Jimmy-T

                    There’s a point in every almost every strata dispute where everyone just needs to take a step back and consider the costs – socially and financially – of either backing…

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                      Podcast: Life savings lost thanks to dodgy dealing

                      • 23/03/2021
                      • Author Jimmy-T

                      In this week’s Flat Chat Wrap we discuss the awful story about the young woman who put her life savings into a deposit on a flat in a block that’s…

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                        Push to free strata from NSW Fair Trading

                        • 23/03/2021
                        • Author Jimmy-T

                        NSW Labor has launched a renewed push to take strata out of Fair Trading and into a separate Government entity, saying it’s evident that stakeholders don’t trust the current structures…

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                          Your pet laws and by-laws, state by state

                          • 21/03/2021
                          • Author Jimmy-T

                          Recent re-interpretations and rulings on pet by-laws in NSW, not to mention much-needed updating of the basic strata laws behind them, have left a lot of pet owners scratching their…

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                            Green ceramics counter curse of disposable fashion

                            • 21/03/2021
                            • Author Jimmy-T

                            When a university academic handed a property developer a small grey tile recently, and said “this is your son’s old school uniform” it marked the confluence of a creative vision,…

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                              In the thick of it over Airbnb register

                              • 19/03/2021
                              • Author Jimmy-T

                              It’s all a bit Thick of It (or Yes, Minister for older readers) but every so often our government ministers have to front up and answer questions to a Budget…

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                                Forum: Cubby house in a strata scheme garden

                                • 16/03/2021
                                • Author Jimmy-T

                                When strata neighbours start getting snarky with each other, the issues are usually fairly clear-cut.  It could be parking in the wrong place, leaving garbage outside your front door or…

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                                  Podcast: Virtual commutes are transports of delight

                                  • 16/03/2021
                                  • Author Jimmy-T

                                  Are you over working from home?  Does your formerly perfectly adequate apartment now seem tiny.  Is your kitchen table too high and your laptop screen too small? Are you one…

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                                    Building managers dodge contract limits bullet

                                    • 16/03/2021
                                    • Author Jimmy-T

                                    Stories about incompetent or dishonest strata building managers are the stuff of apartment dinner party one-upmanship.  Or should that be one-downmanship? To be fair, most strata and facilities managers are…

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