fbpx

FLAT CHAT

Open search panel

MenuMenu

  • Your best friend in strata
  • Airbnb
  • Flat Chat Forum
  • Strata Facts
  • Podcasts
  • Common complaints
  • Contact us
  • Our privacy policy
Open search panel
  1. Home
  2. Posts tagged: OCN

OCN

Renault_Zoe_2.jpg

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…

Read more
1
Share this post
    shutterstock_422470732.jpg

    Who’s got your back when strata schemes hit strife?

    • 22/09/2020
    • Author Jimmy-T

    In times of strife and confusion, it’s good to know who’s got your back. It’s even more important to know who hasn’t. Recently in these pages I briefly listed the…

    Read more
    Share this post
      Agri_Precinct.jpg

      Podcast 75 – The future is right on our doorsteps

      • 26/05/2020
      • Author Jimmy-T

      We seem to be so caught up in the day-to-day of avoiding or dealing with the coronavirus, so it’s refreshing to know that some people are thinking of a future…

      Read more
      1
      Share this post
        shutterstock_225799537.jpg

        New fire safety regs on strata webinar agenda

        • 21/05/2020
        • Author Jimmy-T

        You guys are getting into the technology, big time. Apparently more than 200 strata residents took part in the Owners Corporation Network (OCN) webinar on Airbnb and short term letting…

        Read more
        1
        Share this post
          shutterstock_1293104044.jpg

          Buy the by-law and say bye-bye to Airbnb

          • 21/04/2020
          • Author Jimmy-T

          If you thought the battle to restrict Airbnb-style short-term rentals from apartment buildings that don’t want them was over in NSW, you may be in for a shock. The new…

          Read more
          2
          Share this post
            shutterstock_1460455532-e1585181590231.jpg

            D-Day looms for Airbnb apartment ban by-laws

            • 26/03/2020
            • Author Jimmy-T

            D-Day for apartment blocks in holiday areas of NSW is just around the corner – where D stands for “Dump short-term letting”. On April 10, the new NSW strata regulations…

            Read more
            1
            Share this post
              opal-shady.jpg

              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…

              Read more
              1
              Share this post
                James-V.jpg

                The real deal for strata owners on James Valentine

                • 24/07/2019
                • Author Jimmy-T

                I was listening to the ABC News Radio last Friday and an item came on about strata defects, flammable cladding and the state ministers meeting in Sydney. The news reader…

                Read more
                1
                Share this post

                  Flat Chat Wrap #23 – Airbnb code of conduct, developers go “crowd” and a horse in a townhouse (???)

                  • 07/05/2019
                  • Author Jimmy-T

                  Jimmy T and Sue Williams explore the latest developments in the strataverse … and come up with some very odd stories indeed.

                  Read more
                  Share this post
                    shutterstock_87399995-e1552398575524.jpg

                    Roundup: When ‘privacy’ is more important than unit block fire safety

                    • 13/03/2019
                    • Author Jimmy-T

                    I was gobsmacked this week to discover that Fair Trading have refused to even tell owners in the 400-plus buildings seriously affected by flammable cladding that there’s a seminar this…

                    Read more
                    1
                    Share this post
                      Cartoon-flats-top.jpg

                      Podcast: The link between holiday lets and high rise cladding fires

                      • 06/03/2019
                      • Author Jimmy-T

                      It used to be that when anyone talked about problems in strata, the perennial topics were the four Ps – pets, parking, parties (the noisy kind) and puffing (the smoke…

                      Read more
                      1
                      Share this post
                        shutterstock_611032364.jpg

                        Resident owners’ report slams holiday letting laws

                        • 25/11/2018
                        • Author

                        The peak body representing apartment owners in NSW has blasted the incoming short-term holiday letting laws as “excessively generous” to holiday letting hosts and a threat to the very nature…

                        Read more
                        Share this post
                          shutterstock_1034545243.jpg

                          Roundup – Row over Airbnb code of conduct

                          • 07/11/2018
                          • Author JD Thomson

                          Don’t hold out too much hope for a short-term holiday letting code of conduct that’s actually going to help you keep the peace when Airbnb, Stayz and all the other…

                          Read more
                          Share this post
                            Matt-Kean.jpg

                            Cracks showing as Fair Trading loses friends

                            • 07/10/2018
                            • Author

                            Fair Trading, the unheralded and little-loved corner of the NSW department of Innovation and Better Regulation has always had its resources stretched to breaking point. It’s a vital service cursed…

                            Read more
                            Share this post
                              shutterstock_1027907812.jpg

                              OCN seminar to show the way through strata maze

                              • 19/09/2018
                              • Author

                              We don’t need to tell Flat Chat readers that living in strata is complicated  – you wouldn’t be here if you hadn’t already found that out for yourselves. And for…

                              Read more
                              Share this post
                                shutterstock_398459521.jpg

                                ROUNDUP: Signs of the times as OCN gets a boost

                                • 11/07/2018
                                • Author

                                Last week, after our story about the Owners Corporation Network, more than 500 of you went over to their website and had a look around.  What a terrific response! Now,…

                                Read more
                                Share this post
                                  Strata-Matters-Vote.jpg

                                  Roundup: The only independent lobby group for strata owners and residents

                                  • 03/07/2018
                                  • Author

                                  Every little niche of our society seems to have its own pressure group, lobbyists or even political party.  So why don’t we? After all, according to the stats in the…

                                  Read more
                                  Share this post
                                    Strata-Matters-Vote.jpg

                                    Frustration and fury – what we learned at the Strata Matters owners day

                                    • 11/03/2018
                                    • Author

                                    What a day! Just under 100 – and by that I mean exactly 99 – Flatchatters and OCN members turned up at the Strata Matters event on Saturday (March 10)…

                                    Read more
                                    Share this post

                                      Posts navigation

                                      Page 1 Page 2 Next page

                                      Login and register

                                      Replacement windows

                                      Building Communities

                                      Help at hand

                                      PodCom

                                      Sign up for our free newsletter

                                      Flat Chat Forum

                                      Click here

                                      Recent Topics

                                      • New strata manager won’t communicate with committee
                                      • Responsibility for repair to rising damp on internal walls
                                      • Compensation for bathroom reno in our rental
                                      • What is common property on a balcony?
                                      • Strata’s financial statements withheld from OC
                                      • co owner proxy
                                      • Child Safety Locks – is a compliance check required??
                                      • Pet-friendly housing helps everyone, says report
                                      • Lack of maintenance affecting insurance
                                      • ‘Mr Chairman, may I be permitted to speak?’
                                      • Major renovation by-law before or after OC approval
                                      • How un-green can you get?
                                      • When Parking Becomes Car Storage
                                      • Calling up General Meeting
                                      • How dangerous is an American Bully dog?
                                      • Podcast: Pets (again!) with James Valentine
                                      • Waiving levies.
                                      • Land grab in company title
                                      • Top dogs – the very best pooches for apartments
                                      • Voting for repairs

                                      Search posts and pages

                                      scroll to top