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In the thick of it over Airbnb register

  • 19/03/2021
  • Author Jimmy-T

It’s all a bit Thick of It (or Yes, Minister for older readers) but every so often our government ministers have to front up and answer questions to a Budget…

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    Podcast 100: Upside of a stairlift stand-off

    • 17/11/2020
    • Author Jimmy-T

    There are two major strands to this week’s podcast. The first stems from a question raised in the Flat Chat Forum, about an apartment owner who wants to install a…

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      New book blasts Airbnb as hosts welcome register

      • 14/11/2020
      • Author Jimmy-T

      Airbnb has “welcomed” the new short-term holiday lets code of conduct but is staying notably silent on the proposed register of STHL properties in NSW. And while accommodation hosts in…

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        Podcast 98: A tale of two very different rentals

        • 03/11/2020
        • Author Jimmy-T

        We are looking at two very different kinds of rentals this week.  The first is build-to-rent apartments (which is definitely NOT affordable housing, regardless of what anyone else might tell…

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          Register and log-in … we’re back on track

          • 27/01/2020
          • Author Jimmy-T

          Editing a website is a bit like driving a train – everything seems to be working fine until you look behind you and realise you don’t have any passengers. And…

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            More curbs on way for Airbnb hosts as WA plans register and by-laws

            • 27/09/2019
            • Author Jimmy-T

            Barriers are going up across Australia in an effort to curb the out-of-control spread of illegal holiday lets, with both NSW and now WA considering strata scheme by-law bans, mandatory…

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              Holiday letting register – new rules need real teeth

              • 11/09/2019
              • Author Jimmy-T

              Last Wednesday (September 11) saw the closing date for submissons to Planning NSW regarding the propsed Code of Coduct, Holiday Letting Register and Fire Safety Regulations for short-term holiday lets. …

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                Flat Chat Wrap #40 – the end of parking as we know it

                • 11/09/2019
                • Author Jimmy-T

                This week the Flat Chat Wrap podders look at the ridiculous cost of parking spaces, the new forms of flat-sharing and we finish off our chat with Jane Hearn about…

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                  Stayz and Airbnb in war of words on register

                  • 10/09/2019
                  • Author Jimmy-T

                  Do you think online holiday letting agencies Airbnb and Stayz are different sides of the same coin? Well settle in for a verbal joust between the main players in the…

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                    PODCAST: Defect loans, Airbnb rules and sneaky sex in the spa

                    • 20/08/2019
                    • Author Jimmy-T

                    It’s a real mixed bag in this week’s Flat Chat Wrap podcast – finance, Airbnb and sneaky sex. Sue Williams and I start our dissection of the week’s strata news…

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                      Flat Chat Wrap #37 – Defects loans, Airbnb rules and sex in the spa

                      • 20/08/2019
                      • Author Jimmy-T

                      It’s a real mixed bag in this week’s Flat Chat Wrap podcast – finance, Airbnb and sneaky sex. Sue Williams and I start our dissection of the week’s strata news…

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                        How Fireys may save us from holiday let hell

                        • 16/08/2019
                        • Author Jimmy-T

                        The NSW government released their discussion document of the proposed new short-term letting regulations this week and, of course, they make interesting reading. I will be examining the proposal for…

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                          Airbnb fights tough new city laws in court

                          • 16/11/2018
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                          LETTER FROM BOSTON: As a long-time thorn in Airbnb’s side, I’m trying not to take this personally. But no sooner do I arrive in Boston, Mass. than Airbnb files a…

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                            Why you need to fine landlords who don’t register tenants

                            • 06/11/2017
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                            It’s funny how the whole holiday letting issue is shaking out a lot of strata and council laws, especially the unenforceable ones. And before we go any further, this is not…

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                              Logins and lock-outs: Keeping you safe from cyber-baddies

                              • 17/04/2017
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                              Just a quick note to anyone who has recently been enduring the frustrations of trying to register and login to the site.  We’ve all been locked out and tripped up…

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                                ‘Name and shame’ file draws rental agent anger

                                • 07/10/2016
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                                Did you know that NSW Fair Trading has started naming and shaming bad operators?  For two months now there has been a list on its website of businesses that have…

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                                  Ghost tenants make a myth of rental reform

                                  • 20/05/2016
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                                  Resident owners paranoid about tenants taking over strata schemes don’t need to go to the barricades just yet. There’s a fairly massive hole in the government’s laudable plans to give tenants…

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                                    How to register and log in

                                    • 05/01/2016
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                                    There seems to be a little confusion among some readers about how to get on to the Forum and post questions and comments, so I thought I would put together…

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