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From the Forum: Landlady too nice for her own good

  • 11/12/2019
  • Author Jimmy-T

There are times when I think some of our Flatchatters are just too nice for their own good. Take this week’s first correspondent whose tenant has been illegally parking his…

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    PODCAST: Our year of living dangerously

    • 10/12/2019
    • Author Jimmy-T

    It’s getting to the end of the year so we thought we’d look back at the last 12 months of apartment living in Australia. Unfortunately, there seem to be a…

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      Off-the-plan panic at the chocolate factory

      • 10/12/2019
      • Author Jimmy-T

      Allegtions of “shape-shifting’ have raised their ugly face again, with a tale of off-the-plan owners not getting what they thought they had paid for when they finally moved into their new…

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        Stage a strata revolt without being revolting

        • 07/12/2019
        • Author Jimmy-T

        There was a popular saying around at the end of the last century – “don’t get mad, get even”.  However, as I often ask people who write to the Flat…

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          From the Forum: Email address privacy push

          • 04/12/2019
          • Author Jimmy-T

          The Flat Chat forum has gone nuts this week with what must be close to a record number of new questions, many from first-time Flatchatters. But there’s one long-running dispute…

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            PODCAST : Email privacy, off-the-plan protection and power grabs

            • 04/12/2019
            • Author Jimmy-T

            Privacy, consumer protections and how to engineer radical change in your apartment block are the main topics for discussion in this week’s Flat Chat Wrap podcast. A heated discussion in…

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              How we changed the law on off-the-plan sales

              • 03/12/2019
              • Author Jimmy-T

              It’s not often in journalism that you can look at a change in state law and say “I had a hand in that.” But the announcement of new protections for…

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                Say hi to our new best of frenemies

                • 03/12/2019
                • Author Jimmy-T

                Avid readers of this website may have noticed a new ad appearing on the bottom right of your screens, for LookUpStrata, a “rival” website. This is a result of an…

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                  Make the most of your AGM (and other meetings)

                  • 03/12/2019
                  • Author Jimmy-T

                  Considering that the AGM is the one time of the year when owners get direct contact with their strata committees, their organisation can sometimes be a little haphazard, to say…

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                    Fiendishly clever ways to curb neighbours from Hell

                    • 02/12/2019
                    • Author Jimmy-T

                    Nightmare neighbours fall into several categories, but most of them have varying degrees of ignorance, inconsideration, selfishness, bloody-mindedness and lack of awareness. Now, there are innocent parties. The parents of…

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                      Luna reigns for cats and dogs as top pet names revealed

                      • 27/11/2019
                      • Author Jimmy-T

                      OK, I have never met a cat or dog called Luna, which apparently is the most popular name for females of both species. As for male pets, it seems we…

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                        From the Forum: is your strata manager way too laid back?

                        • 27/11/2019
                        • Author Jimmy-T

                        There are some committees and strata managers that are just too laid back for their own – and their owners’ – good. How many warning notices do you send out…

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                          PODCAST: We hit 50 … Airbnb, pet bans and nasty neighbours

                          • 27/11/2019
                          • Author Jimmy-T

                          Amazingly, this is our 50th Flat Chat Wrap which means we have been doing this – the podcast thing – for almost a year. And yet, the same topics come…

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                            It’s Airbn-BS as families are ‘priced out by red tape’

                            • 26/11/2019
                            • Author Jimmy-T

                            Even in this crazy, mixed-up, high speed, disrupted world in which we live, some things never change. One of them, sadly, is Airbnb’s determination to tug at our heartstrings by…

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                              The claim game – detecting defects is just the beginning

                              • 26/11/2019
                              • Author Jimmy-T

                              You’ve just bought into a new apartment block and cracks have started to appear, or the roof leaks when it rains, or the fire safety measures wouldn’t stop a tea…

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                                PODCAST: Defamation, fake minutes and holiday packing disasters

                                • 19/11/2019
                                • Author Jimmy-T

                                This week’s Flat Chat Wrap podcast features JimmyT and Sue Williams examining the half-million dollar turnaround in a strata defamation case, a discussion about who’s the boss in a strata…

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                                  From the Forum: Facts and fictions in meeting minutes

                                  • 19/11/2019
                                  • Author Jimmy-T

                                  Imagine you’ve had your AGM, there were a couple of contentious issues, a by-law here and there, a few raised voices, maybe, but eventually it was all resolved and everyone…

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                                    Opal chair reveals his year of dealing with disaster

                                    • 18/11/2019
                                    • Author Jimmy-T

                                    It’s the kind of bad dream that has strata chairs waking up in a cold sweat; being thrust into the heart of a very public building disaster, with residents thrown…

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