Podcast 101: Pets and some post-Covid plusses
With most of the worst of the pandemic behind us here in Australia – or, at least, the first and hopefully the last wave of infections – we thought we’d…
With most of the worst of the pandemic behind us here in Australia – or, at least, the first and hopefully the last wave of infections – we thought we’d…
This year has been huge for pet owners in strata, especially in NSW, with companion animals moved from the small print of our by-laws to the news pages of our…
There aren’t many investment options that offer you four or five times your stake within six months … well, few that don’t have you looking over your shoulder for ICAC…
Bathroom Chronicles, Part 8. “Are these tiles coming off, then?” There can be few more chilling words from a tradie’s mouth to a home renovator’s ears. “For God’s sake, man,”…
Are you a member of a tight and lively social group in your apartment block or are you a lone wolf, happy to keep interactions with your neighbours to a…
There’s an intriguing conundrum in the Forum this week. An owner in a small walk-up block wants to install a stairlift – one of those chairs that takes older or…
Is Australian the only country in the eorld that doesn’t “get” electric vehicles? In the same week that GMC announce their new electric Hummer in the USA, (0-100kph in 3…
There are two major strands to this week’s podcast. The first stems from a question raised in the Flat Chat Forum, about an apartment owner who wants to install a…
Flat Chat sponsor Lannock Strata Finance has welcomed the decision by the NSW Government to cover the interest on commercial strata loans taken out to pay for the removal of…
We’ve scored a century! This week sees us post the 100th episode of the Flat Chat Wrap – and that’s only counting properly produced and distributed episodes. We would have…
Just as different states have different strata laws, they have very different approaches to revising and updating them. NSW, Victoria and Queensland are all at various stages of reviews while…
Airbnb has “welcomed” the new short-term holiday lets code of conduct but is staying notably silent on the proposed register of STHL properties in NSW. And while accommodation hosts in…
The main story from the Forum this week is a real comedy of errors, with a dash of misguided or mischievous bush-lawyering thrown in. A Flatchatter has written to us…
This week we returned to a topic we raised in the last podcast, namely build-to-rent and specifically the new Liv Indigo building at Sydney Olympic Park. They held an open…
Bathroom Chronicles, Part 7 We’re rapidly reaching the conclusion that cats and renovations don’t mix. After our misadventures in the hotel across the road, we thought we’d be past the…
Sometimes in life, the secret of success is a question of good timing. Strata living is no exception and this week our Flatchatters have been watching the clock or, at…
It can hardly be called a secret but scaffolding, workers in high-vis vests and trucks are the only obvious clues to an intriguing new development underway in Pyrmont. The project…
We are looking at two very different kinds of rentals this week. The first is build-to-rent apartments (which is definitely NOT affordable housing, regardless of what anyone else might tell…