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Podcast: What a great year … for pets and renters

  • 04/01/2021
  • Author Jimmy-T

This week’s podcast may be the first of 2021 but 2020 doesn’t get away that easily. Last year will be remembered in global politics as the year of Brexit, Trump,…

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    Building pressure as more developers cut and run

    • 29/12/2020
    • Author Jimmy-T

    A story in the Sydney Morning Herald last week should have sent an unseasonal chill through the corridors of NSW Fair Trading and the whole of the state Government. In…

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      Online guide blazes trail through defects jungle

      • 07/12/2020
      • Author Jimmy-T

      A new interactive, user-friendly online guide will help current and future apartment owners discover and deal with building defects, say its authors. Launched this week, the step-by-step guide, devised by…

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        Commissioner’s lifeline on new-build defects

        • 15/09/2020
        • Author Jimmy-T

        Owners corporations in relatively new buildings deciding whether to fix building defects themselves or take recalcitrant developers to court – at huge expense and with no guarantee of success –…

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          Podcast 91: Crackdown on dud developers hits home

          • 15/09/2020
          • Author Jimmy-T

          We have one of our longest ever Flat Chat Wrap podcasts this week, but it’s all good so brace yourselves, pace yourselves and buckle up for some interesting material from…

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            Building regs come back to bite gov in new Opal claim

            • 30/06/2020
            • Author Jimmy-T

            The government’s new regulations on building defects may have come back to bite them on the bum, with owners of apartments in the infamous Opal Tower in Sydney suing the…

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              Podcast 79 – bad pads, fams and James Valentine

              • 23/06/2020
              • Author Jimmy-T

              It’s a bumper edition of the Flat Chat Wrap this week, boosted by an extract from JimmyT’s guest spot on James Valentine’s Afternoons on ABC radio. But first Jimmy and…

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                ‘Abominable’ tower was last straw on defects

                • 17/06/2020
                • Author Jimmy-T

                An apartment block described by its developers as one of its “architectural landmarks of the finest standard” has been outed by NSW Building Commissioner David Chandler as the “straw that…

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                  Upper House report slams Government on cladding, defects and reforms

                  • 05/05/2020
                  • Author Jimmy-T

                  A NSW Upper House committee has slammed the NSW State government over alleged failures in three key areas all of which are directly related to apartment living. The government is…

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                    Loan or levies – why can’t we use both when finances are forced?

                    • 07/02/2020
                    • Author Jimmy-T

                    While 2020 is likely to snare yet more strata owners in the must-pay trap of defects rectifications, there is a giant hole in most states’ strata laws that make it…

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                      Same old story as phoenix frauds ‘exposed’ yet again

                      • 16/12/2019
                      • Author Jimmy-T

                      There’s much less fun than there ought to be in saying “we told you so” – possibly because it implies that the bad thing we told you was going to…

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                        The claim game – detecting defects is just the beginning

                        • 26/11/2019
                        • Author Jimmy-T

                        You’ve just bought into a new apartment block and cracks have started to appear, or the roof leaks when it rains, or the fire safety measures wouldn’t stop a tea…

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                          Opal chair reveals his year of dealing with disaster

                          • 18/11/2019
                          • Author Jimmy-T

                          It’s the kind of bad dream that has strata chairs waking up in a cold sweat; being thrust into the heart of a very public building disaster, with residents thrown…

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                            From the Forum: fire regs, air cons and limits on tenant numbers

                            • 13/11/2019
                            • Author Jimmy-T

                            Particularly at this time when half the country seems to be going uip in flames, fire safety seems to be more relevant than ever. So imagine you are in a…

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                              Flat Chat Wrap 48 – Flats grow, Government ducks, Airbnb strife

                              • 13/11/2019
                              • Author Jimmy-T

                              We cover a lot of ground in this week’s Flat Chat Wrap, starting with the surprising news that new apartments are getting bigger while houses are getting smaller.  Is it…

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                                PODCAST – Flats get bigger, Government ducks, Airbnb in strife

                                • 13/11/2019
                                • Author Jimmy-T

                                We cover a lot of ground in this week’s Flat Chat Wrap, starting with the surprising news that new apartments are getting bigger while houses are getting smaller.  Is it…

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                                  Flat Chat Wrap #46 – cracking down on by-law breachers and bad builders

                                  • 29/10/2019
                                  • Author Jimmy-T

                                  JimmyT thinks of changing the name of this week’s episode to Hard Chat (but won’t because he’s scared of Tom Gleason) as he’s going in hard on two very different…

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                                    Building expert: defects plan is deeply flawed

                                    • 29/10/2019
                                    • Author Jimmy-T

                                    The NSW government’s plans to construct our apartment buildings better in the future, released last week, were met with a universal outpouring of … well … whatever the opposite of…

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