Huge support for micro-apartments as low-cost housing?
Did you notice the story about micro apartments being built as affordable housing in New York? Well, I submitted a follow-up (below) in the Herald’s online page and they ran a…
Did you notice the story about micro apartments being built as affordable housing in New York? Well, I submitted a follow-up (below) in the Herald’s online page and they ran a…
Parking – along with pets and parties – is one of the perennial three P problems in strata. In this entertaining, interactive quiz, Jimmy Thomson of Flat Chat tests your…
This article was originally posted on Domain.com.au and the Sydney Morning Herald website. You can read more on the power and perils of proxy farming here: At best, it has been…
There’s another interactive quiz running over on our sister website Titlemagazine.com.au. What’s the best dog for a unit? Which state’s strata by-laws are most pet-friendly? When can a tenant have…
Here’s a tragic tale to challenge pet lovers. A dog, which is not allowed to run free on common property, attacks a cat, also barred from wandering on to common…
It ever there was a group of people who deserved to be called the silent majority, it’s strata tenants. Tenants make up more than half the population of strata units but…
Owners who have just moved into brand new apartment buildings may have already missed the deadline for defect claims, according to strata experts, while others may have only weeks to…
The current wailing and gnashing of teeth about the new definition of building defects has come too late to do anything about what is fundamentally a government cave-in to developers…
In the headlong rush to apartment living for all sorts of reasons other than it’s the kind of lifestyle you want, some people might be en route for an experience…
Another year has rolled around and you still haven’t got to grips with living in your block? You’ve got issues, but who hasn’t? And you have something to contribute –…
Having good relations with friendly neighbour is a blessing. But every so often somebody does or says the wrong thing and the nasty notes start flying around. Here are some…
With party season already in full swing, here are some simple ways you can prevent your neighbours all making the same new year’s resolution: to get you out of their…