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Forum: Just another 150 bricks (not) in the wall

  • 21/07/2020
  • Author Jimmy-T

It’s all too familiar… a couple of people get themselves elected to the committee and soon, instead of enforcing by-laws and strata law, they start making up the rules as…

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    PODCAST 60 – Retirees rule, Airbnb lose and flooring fights

    • 18/02/2020
    • Author Jimmy-T

    This week on the Flat Chat Wrap we ask whether retired business people are the best or the worst committee members you can have. Based on this column, Jimmy and…

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      Flat Chat Wrap #38 – Mediation, revolution and crazy planning objections

      • 27/08/2019
      • Author Jimmy-T

      This week the Flat Chat Wrap podcast is all about conflict and various forms of resolution … including revolution. First Sue Williams and I take a look at we take…

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        Roundup: Are you being locked out of cheaper power bills?

        • 25/09/2018
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        Are you being balked whenever you try to take advantage of some of the competitive offers from power companies? It seems some developers and a few not very smart strata…

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          One simple way to sack your strata chair

          • 13/05/2018
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            Strata stories are often like slapstick comedy – hilarious … provided you’re not the one lying face down in the custard. Recently Flat Chat fielded a question from a…

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            Roundup: Let’s hear it for strata’s unsung heroes

            • 05/09/2016
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            I was on the radio the other day and got a couple of calls from, let’s call them mature ladies, who live in small unit blocks and who have been…

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              Roundup: now with added Apples (OK … iPhones)

              • 11/07/2016
              • Author ClickWP

              I am having great difficulty writing this, mainly because I have my fingers crossed.  I think I have finally fixed the problem with iPhones, ipads and smartphones that meant you…

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                Roundup: Would you elect either of them as your EC chair?

                • 27/06/2016
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                In Britain they get to choose between being in and out of Europe, in America they get to choose between Trump and Clinton and we get … (drum roll) Malcolm…

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                  Proxy pain as non-owner rules unit block

                  • 26/05/2016
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                  It’s a familiar scenario: someone gets on your strata committees and starts ruling the place on the highly dubious basis of whatever they want is what’s best for everyone. That…

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                    Strata townhouses of horrors

                    • 03/10/2015
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                    If you read this originally in Domain in the SMH, you can read the original post HERE. We tend to think of the worst strata misery occurring in multi-unit high…

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                      Key to curbing remote control freak

                      • 19/09/2015
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                      This originally appeared in Domain in the SMH and Financial Review.  To read comments, click HERE. In strata more than anywhere else, it seems, there are certain kinds of people…

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