Podcast: Pets (again!) with James Valentine
Every so often – about once a month – I get invited on to James Valentine’s Afternoons on ABC 702. Last week the topic was pets in apartments – partly…
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Forum: Ctte member gets paid for ‘strata training’
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…
Here’s cheers to the best of the worst of your posts
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…
Forum: High anxiety and double-dip voting
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…
Forum: Window repair costs don’t add up
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…
Forum: Cheap insurance leaves owner under water
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…
Forum: At wits’ end with nasty neighbour campaign
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…
Forum: Sub-committees subterfuge and secrets
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…
Forum: Inundated – just like the people below balcony window washers
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…
From the Forum – down in the dumps with a slack SM
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…
From the Forum – is working from home legal?
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,…
From the Forum: Money, money, money … or not
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…