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Podcast 71 – Redesigning flats for work and a legal view of solo meetings

  • 28/04/2020
  • Author Jimmy-T

Sometimes the way we want to live influences architecture, sometimes architecture influences the way we live. There are still older blocks dotted around Sydney’s harbour suburbs where someone who wanted…

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    Podcast 70 – renos and what to wear when working from home

    • 21/04/2020
    • Author Jimmy-T

    In this week’s Flat Chat Wrap, Jimmy and Sue discuss the competing and often conflicting needs of those who are working from home and those who are working on their…

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      Podcast 69 – fostering pets, falling rents, failing tradies and TV flats

      • 14/04/2020
      • Author Jimmy-T

      This week’s Flat Chat Wrap has just about everything; pets, tradies, TV shows set in apartments and, of course, Airbnb – plenty to keep your spirits up through the Lockdown.…

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        Podcast 68: Six months of Sundays, classic movies, perfect pods

        • 07/04/2020
        • Author Jimmy-T

        In this week’s Flat Chat Wrap. Jimmy and Sue look at the wealth of good advice about how to get through this crisis without the whole system falling around our…

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          Podcast 67: Airbnb bugged, gym junkies fret … and fun

          • 01/04/2020
          • Author Jimmy-T

          In this week’s extra-long Flat Chat Wrap, obsession with coronavirus is spreading like, well, a virus.  Jimmy and Sue discuss how it may be having a crippling effect on that…

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            Podcast 62: Free strata managers, fire stupidity, locked-out landlord

            • 03/03/2020
            • Author Jimmy-T

            In this week’s Flat Chat Wrap, JimmyT and Sue Williams discusses the possibility of having free, or non-profit strata managers. Would it work, who would use the service and wouldn’t…

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              PODCAST 55 – Privacy poppycock, powers of attorney and pets in peril

              • 15/01/2020
              • Author Jimmy-T

              This week in the podcast we revisit the vexed question of whether or not you should be allowed to view other owners’ email addresses. The SCA (Strata Community Australia –…

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                Podcast 54 – Bushfires, unit blocks and stray cats

                • 08/01/2020
                • Author Jimmy-T

                This week’s podcast is about the bushfires.  For a change, apartments are not portrayed in the media as the worst possible way to live in Australia. That’s not to say…

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                  Flat Chat Wrap #47 – Terror threats, buying big and a baffling raffle

                  • 06/11/2019
                  • Author Jimmy-T

                  This week, JimmyT and Sue Williams tackle subjects that range from the sinister to the sublimely ridiculous … with some practical advice for investors in between. Why won’t the government…

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                    PODCAST: Defect loans, Airbnb rules and sneaky sex in the spa

                    • 20/08/2019
                    • Author Jimmy-T

                    It’s a real mixed bag in this week’s Flat Chat Wrap podcast – finance, Airbnb and sneaky sex. Sue Williams and I start our dissection of the week’s strata news…

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                      Podcast: Backpackers and levy dodgers with James Valentine

                      • 17/04/2019
                      • Author Jimmy-T

                      Every month or so, JimmyT takes Flat Chat to the airwaves as a guest on Afternoons with James Valentine on ABC 702. This week James and Jimmy crammed a lot…

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                        Podcast: The truth about the whole defects disaster

                        • 06/01/2019
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                        If you think you’ve heard everything there is to know about the cracks crisis at the Opal Tower in Sydney, and the whole defects disaster in NSW and Australia as…

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                          The Wrap podcast: Parking, popular pet names, and Airbnb

                          • 01/12/2018
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                          We’re back in Australia this week, with a story about a conflict that couldn’t be more Aussie. Sue Williams takes us through her yarn about people who bought parking spots…

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                            Jimmy and James discuss the new bans on no-pets by-laws

                            • 29/10/2018
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                            We’re back in the ABC studios to discuss ‘no-pet’ by-laws, among other things, and to take your calls. You can listen to the episode HERE.

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                              The Wrap – Now you can listen to Flat Chat too

                              • 24/10/2018
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                              The best of this week’s Flat Chat is now available as a Podcast.  Join JimmyT and journalist Sue Williams as they dissect the week’s posts, questions, advice and answers. is…

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                                The new kit on the block – another podcast lands

                                • 12/10/2018
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                                Listen to the Dardanelle Towers, Episode 2 podcast HERE Well, this podcasting lark has turned out to be harder than I thought. You write the stuff, read it aloud, read…

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