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Podcast 101: Pets and some post-Covid plusses

  • 24/11/2020
  • Author Jimmy-T

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…

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    Luna and Archie rule as old faves join pet name lists

    • 24/11/2020
    • Author Jimmy-T

    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…

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      How to lift the value of flats in a walk-up block

      • 21/11/2020
      • Author Jimmy-T

      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…

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        ‘Bonfire of the Vanity’ or ‘Return to Render’

        • 20/11/2020
        • Author Jimmy-T

        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,”…

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          Score $20 for taking part in a social media survey

          • 19/11/2020
          • Author Jimmy-T

          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…

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            Forum: High anxiety and double-dip voting

            • 18/11/2020
            • Author Jimmy-T

            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…

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              Free webinar on electric vehicle charging in strata

              • 17/11/2020
              • Author Jimmy-T

              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…

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                Podcast 100: Upside of a stairlift stand-off

                • 17/11/2020
                • Author Jimmy-T

                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…

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                  State to pay interest on flammable cladding loans

                  • 17/11/2020
                  • Author Jimmy-T

                  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…

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                    Fun and occasional fury as our podcast hits 100 eps

                    • 17/11/2020
                    • Author Jimmy-T

                    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…

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                      How your state’s strata laws are being upgraded

                      • 17/11/2020
                      • Author Jimmy-T

                      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…

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                        New book blasts Airbnb as hosts welcome register

                        • 14/11/2020
                        • Author Jimmy-T

                        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…

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                          Forum: Flooring breach bungle and flawed law

                          • 10/11/2020
                          • Author Jimmy-T

                          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…

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                            Podcast 99: Long-term rental will tempt tenants

                            • 10/11/2020
                            • Author Jimmy-T

                            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…

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                              Nights on the tiles as cat leaves a future fossil

                              • 09/11/2020
                              • Author Jimmy-T

                              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…

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                                Forum: consternation over late nomination

                                • 04/11/2020
                                • Author Jimmy-T

                                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…

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                                  ‘Secret’ estate townhouses set to smash sales records

                                  • 03/11/2020
                                  • Author Jimmy-T

                                  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…

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                                    Podcast 98: A tale of two very different rentals

                                    • 03/11/2020
                                    • Author Jimmy-T

                                    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…

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