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Forum: Ctte member gets paid for ‘strata training’

  • 16/02/2021
  • Author Jimmy-T

In these days when conspiracy theories can almost lead to the overthrow of the “greatest democracy in the world” we have to be careful not to fuel the fires of…

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    Forum: Something shady in manager’s offer of help

    • 09/02/2021
    • Author Jimmy-T

    There’s a sad and slightly creepy story from Tasmania this week – and it’s all about how some people haven’t quite got to grips with the concept of strata even…

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      Forum: How you can lose even when you win

      • 02/02/2021
      • Author Jimmy-T

      The headline on one of our posts this week, says it all: “It’s as if I’m paying to sue myself.” The situation is pretty common.  The strata committee takes an…

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        Forum: Should cleaner have to deal with dog poo?

        • 19/01/2021
        • Author Jimmy-T

        Our first post in this week’s roundup illustrates precisely why I would never live in an apartment block that didn’t have CCTV at least covering the front door and foyer.…

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          Forum: Unfinancialized by a sneaky strata manager

          • 12/01/2021
          • Author Jimmy-T

          One of the suggestions that I made in my overly lengthy submission to the strata law consultations was that seriously incompetent strata managers should face serious penalties, including potentially being…

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            Forum: Spend nothing, do nothing, stay in power

            • 08/12/2020
            • Author Jimmy-T

            There’s an element of strata living that many people find frustrating if not infuriating.  It can probably be best described as a symbiotic relationship between a strata manager who wants,…

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              Podcast: Crazy questions, architects with answers

              • 01/12/2020
              • Author Jimmy-T

              We turn back the clock – but just a little – for this week’s podcast when we look at the weirdest and wackiest questions asked and problems presented on the…

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                Forum: Owner in dispute blocked from election

                • 24/11/2020
                • Author Jimmy-T

                I often wonder where some strata managers get their ideas – it certainly doesn’t appear to be from professional training. Take the case of our Flatchatter who is in dispute…

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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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                    Forum: Space invader demands squatters rights

                    • 15/09/2020
                    • Author Jimmy-T

                    It’s amazing how often this old chestnut comes up and it reminds me of friends who had a “creative” young chap move into their small 1930s walk-up and announce he…

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                      Forum: Window repair costs don’t add up

                      • 08/09/2020
                      • Author Jimmy-T

                      This week a Flatchatter doesn’t understand how her share of the cost of having all the windows in her building repaired is more that the quote she received for having…

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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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                          Forum: Cheap insurance leaves owner under water

                          • 11/08/2020
                          • Author Jimmy-T

                          There an annoying piece of nonsense that repeatedly comes up in strata – and nobody ever seems to learn. What happens is that there’s a fault in common property that…

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                            Forum: Are these rules for Covid-19 or Airbnb?

                            • 05/08/2020
                            • Author Jimmy-T

                            Just after we locked off the Forum Roundup last week, we received a post listing a litany of unfair restrictions the poster claimed had been snuck in under cover of…

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                              Forum: Car cable-eating rats in the too-hard basket

                              • 28/07/2020
                              • Author Jimmy-T

                              We’re taking a deep dive into the too-hard basket of strata committees this week, starting with one that says there’s nothing they can do about an infestation of rats, partly…

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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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                                  Forum: Parking madness and untraceable tenants

                                  • 07/07/2020
                                  • Author Jimmy-T

                                  Apologies for leading off on parking issues two weeks in a row but this one is such a doozy that it has even made it to our podcast. The problems…

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                                    Forum: At wits’ end with nasty neighbour campaign

                                    • 23/06/2020
                                    • Author Jimmy-T

                                    There’s a smorgasbord of strata strife in this week’s forum but the story that stands out for me is the tenant who’s being targeted by a couple of owners who…

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