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Our stressful year of strategic strata living

  • 28/12/2020
  • Author Jimmy-T

Covid or no covid, it’s been a tempestuous year in strata in Australia.  From a win for pet owners in NSW to dubious stats from Tasmania, there’s been plenty to…

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    Forum: ‘No-pets’ by-laws dead so bans are bogus

    • 15/12/2020
    • Author Jimmy-T

    While some strata schemes struggle to deal with the fact that their “no pets” by-laws have been rendered obsolete by the recent NSW Court  of Appeal ruling, others seem to…

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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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        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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          Podcast 97: Renovation – best-laid plans (and tiles)

          • 27/10/2020
          • Author Jimmy-T

          It’s renovations all the way in this week’s Flat Chat Wrap as we chat about a Forum post asking what can be done about a disastrous and unauthorised renovation, now…

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            Podcast 96: Pets, rents and new age steam trains

            • 20/10/2020
            • Author Jimmy-T

            People who don’t care about pets in apartments shouldn’t switch off just yet, regardless of how bored you are with the whole issue. It has implications for everyone in apartments,…

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              Pets in apartments: the dogfight is just beginning

              • 20/10/2020
              • Author Jimmy-T

              The big question swirling around “no-pets” blocks in NSW, following the Court of Appeal’s decision against the Horizon building’s by-law last week, is “what next?’ And the answer is probably…

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                Podcast 95: pet ban block, websites and a new book

                • 13/10/2020
                • Author Jimmy-T

                The big strata news of this week stopped us in our tracks. The NSW Court of Appeals has overturned a decision by the strata tribunal (NCAT) which, earlier this year,…

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                  Pet ban shock as Appeals Court erases by-laws

                  • 13/10/2020
                  • Author Jimmy-T

                  It was a decision that doubtless had the denizens of luxury Sydney apartment block Horizon spluttering into their sundowner G&Ts on Monday afternoon … and then checking their bank accounts.…

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                    Forum: What to do with a do-nothing committee

                    • 29/09/2020
                    • Author Jimmy-T

                    Sometimes you have to apply the Goldilocks principle to strata committees. Like the three bears’ beds, some strata committees are too hard, some are too soft and others – maybe…

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                      Podcast: Now you can read it as well as listen

                      • 29/09/2020
                      • Author Jimmy-T

                      This week’s podcast is all about wheel-clamping, email privacy and the amazing legacy of the Sydney Olympics athletes’ village. But one of the biggest pieces of news this week is…

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                        Forum: When ‘she’ll be right’ is oh so wrong

                        • 22/09/2020
                        • Author Jimmy-T

                        That old chestnut of who is responsible for repairs done on a nod and a wink rears its ugly, unloved head again in this week’s Forum. A Flatchatter writes that…

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                          ‘Dream’ bathroom project: the nightmare begins

                          • 07/09/2020
                          • Author Jimmy-T

                          There comes a point in the life of every apartment when you have clear-cut choices – renovate your kitchen or bathrooms, or leave them exactly as they are in the…

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                            Strata law change would expunge no-pets by-laws

                            • 29/08/2020
                            • Author Jimmy-T

                            OK, it’s not quite making pets compulsory in strata schemes, but if an amendment to strata law passed by the NSW Upper House last week negotiates its final hurdle, no…

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                              Forum: $100k in the kitty no window of opportunity

                              • 25/08/2020
                              • Author Jimmy-T

                              Here’s a problem a lot of strata schemes would love to have. A frustrated Flatchatter has written to us about her pre-1974 apartment block that has about $100k in the…

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                                Todd Squad unleashed on dog ban unit block

                                • 09/07/2020
                                • Author Jimmy-T

                                Star of stage musicals like the Boy From Oz, and former Dancing with the Stars judge Todd McKenney has weighed into a Sydney pensioner’s battle to keep his greyhound after…

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                                  Time Fair Trading and NCAT were sin-binned

                                  • 09/06/2020
                                  • Author Jimmy-T

                                  It’s been a while since I said this – and it’s something I should put in my diary for every three months or so – but isn’t it time the…

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                                    Podcast 76: Pet bans, live crabs and gov-love for holiday rentals

                                    • 02/06/2020
                                    • Author Jimmy-T

                                    There’s plenty of variety in this week’s forum, from pets to concieges, and from tourism promotions to a survey that suggests lower-income individuals and families do it toughest in apartment…

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