Resident owners’ report slams holiday letting laws
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…
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Roundup – Row over Airbnb code of conduct
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,…
Cracks showing as Fair Trading loses friends
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.…
OCN seminar to show the way through strata maze
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…
ROUNDUP: Signs of the times as OCN gets a boost
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. …
Roundup: The only independent lobby group for strata owners and residents
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…
Frustration and fury – what we learned at the Strata Matters owners day
What a day! Just under 100 – and by that I mean exactly 99 – Flatchatters and OCN members turned up at the Strata Matters…
Roundup: Seven tricky questions for the strata experts
OK, we’ve only a few days to go until Strata Matters (aka Flat Chat Live) the OCN owners day so I thought I’d give you…
Strata madness – tell us what’s driving you crazy
Is something bugging you? I mean, is there anything about living in strata that’s REALLY getting your goat, curdling your blood and leaving your mustard…
Who’s really got your back in strata battles?
Everybody’s got somebody out there on the barricades or in the trenches, fighting the good fight on their behalf. Drivers have the motoring organisations while…
Cladding and Airbnb crises halt strata event
The Owners Corporation Network has postponed its Savvy Strata seminar planned for Saturday week (Oct 14), citing a series of major challenges to strata owners as the reason…
Seminar to reveal how maintenance adds value
One of the changes built into the new NSW strata laws is a requirement to set up a 10-year maintenance plan, to be reviewed every…
New laws – new seminar
With the new strata laws just over the horizon, a number of strata professionals and community groups are organizing information events. The next Uber off…