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Here’s cheers to the best of the worst of your posts

  • 08/12/2020
  • Author Jimmy-T

Following on from our “best of the worst” podcast last week, and as we emerge from our Covid-enforced hibernations, here at Flat Chat we’ve been looking back at a busy…

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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: 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: 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: 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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            Forum: Sub-committees subterfuge and secrets

            • 26/05/2020
            • Author Jimmy-T

            Imagine, you are sitting in on a strata committee meeting, unable to speak, and the chair gets to an agenda item that says something vague like “Parking Sub-committee”. The chair…

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              Forum: Inundated – just like the people below balcony window washers

              • 20/05/2020
              • Author Jimmy-T

              One should never assume anything. I had thought that with so many people working from home, the correspondence to the Forum would take off like a rocket. When it just…

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                From the Forum – down in the dumps with a slack SM

                • 05/05/2020
                • Author Jimmy-T

                We live in strange times indeed, and this week we received one of the longest posts to the Forum that I have ever seen. The main topic?  A strata manager…

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                  From the Forum – is working from home legal?

                  • 28/04/2020
                  • Author Jimmy-T

                  With more of us working from home, a fairly obvious question has been raised – is it legal? And the answer is … probably yes, possibly no. The critical issue,…

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                    From the Forum: Money, money, money … or not

                    • 21/04/2020
                    • Author Jimmy-T

                    Unsurprisingly, finances are on a lot of people’s minds these days, whether it’s levies or rent and what you do when you can’t afford to pay. And then, of course…

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                      Burning issue – OCN seminar on new fire regs

                      • 15/02/2020
                      • Author Jimmy-T

                      There are few phrases that send more of a chill thorough the hearts of strata owners than the words “fire safety”. Whether you’re in an old building badly in need…

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                        From the Forum: Strata manager charges have 10 pages of “extras”

                        • 17/12/2019
                        • Author Jimmy-T

                        Your strata scheme is in disarray, the strata manager doesn’t know what they’re doing (or doesn’t care … or both). There hasn’t been a committee election for years and nobody…

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                          From the Forum – Ratings sites for blocks, managers and agents

                          • 13/08/2019
                          • Author Jimmy-T

                          There’s an idea that‘s been floating around for a while now, that we should have a ratings website for good and bad apartment blocks and/or strata managers and rental agents.…

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                            Roundup: We’re back … with the odd hiccup

                            • 31/01/2019
                            • Author Jimmy-T

                            It’s been a tough week at Flat Chat Central. Our fabulous website developers (Liveby5) have been working overtime to fix a range of problems that have been increasingly causing irritating…

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                              Flat Chat Wrap #8 – The crumbling Opal Tower and the whole defects disaster

                              • 06/01/2019
                              • Author JD Thomson

                              JimmyT and Sue Williams ask the questions everyone else is avoiding, and provide the answers people need to hear, about the Opal Tower in Sydney and the whole defects disaster…

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                                Roundup: Cladding and parking top your responses

                                • 05/12/2018
                                • Author JD Thomson

                                Our invitation in our last newsletter for you to suggest new topics for us to write about brought a few suggestions. That’s not to say that there’s a shortage of…

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                                  Roundup: Your strata questions take the cake again

                                  • 28/11/2018
                                  • Author JD Thomson

                                  There’s so much going on in the website this week that having a Roundup at all seems like icing on a very big cake … or is it over-egging the…

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                                    Roundup: And the answer is … the Forum

                                    • 23/10/2018
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                                    Usually on the weekly Roundup, I start with a story that’s caught my eye or piqued my curiosity and then lead into the best of the questions on the Forum.…

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