Day traders’ crossed lines
A complaint from tenants that their phone lines weren’t working has revealed that their rented flat was being used as an office and they had been promised there would be…
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A complaint from tenants that their phone lines weren’t working has revealed that their rented flat was being used as an office and they had been promised there would be…
Ah, the gentle tinkle of a tiny temple bell, the whispered chant of a Buddhist prayer, the barely visible thread of smoke from an incense stick. What could be more…
The news last week that the Reserve Bank of Australia thinks young people might be better off renting rather than buying had a resonance in strata more than any other…
An odd little coincidence occurred in the past few days. In the same week that we discovered, almost tragically, that students and young tourists were being housed in shipping containers…
Shipping containers of strata shame The other day I put a dark thought into the mind of a contact in the NSW government. Fair Trading has been running a campaign…
The NSW Government has put on hold strata law changes that were due to come in this month – including allowing a majority of owners to sell units from under…
Forget the buck’s night strippers’ glitter clogging up the lifts, the weekend footy fans vomiting in the stairwells and the country kids doing cannonballs in the communal spa, there is…
The fur is flying in a strata battle over an illegal cat and a sneaky iPhone photo. It starts with a Flat Chat reader who tells us she inherited an…
Brat dumping – when parents buy an apartment for their teenage or young adult offspring so they can offload the results of their lack of child rearing skills on to…
Ageing is not an issue that we immediately associate with apartment living … but it should be. Retirees and empty nesters are among the largest social groups moving into apartments.…
Which law do I break? That’s the dilemma facing landlords whose tenants are suffering because of a failure of owners corporations to repair and maintain common property. “I keep having…
The whole question of whether a majority of owners can vote to sell their entire building, bulldozing the objections of those who would rather stay, is the hottest topic in…