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Podcast: Reno regrets and free strata legal advice

  • 15/12/2020
  • Author Jimmy-T

It’s very much a tale of two slices of strata in this week’s Flat Chat Wrap podcast. To begin with, you can listen to two over-privileged, entitled professionals (us) whingeing…

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    When is a bathroom not really a bathroom?

    • 25/11/2020
    • Author Jimmy-T

    Bathroom Chronicles, Part 9 It is the most human of responses, it seems:  when disaster strikes, you go looking for someone to blame. The disaster in this case is bathroom…

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      Podcast 97: Renovation – best-laid plans (and tiles)

      • 27/10/2020
      • Author Jimmy-T

      It’s renovations all the way in this week’s Flat Chat Wrap as we chat about a Forum post asking what can be done about a disastrous and unauthorised renovation, now…

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        Forum: Reno nightmare owner selling up

        • 20/10/2020
        • Author Jimmy-T

        This week’s lead Forum post is a strata nightmare. It starts when a hobby renovator undertakes a major revamp of his flat, knocking down walls, adding staircases, shifting rooms, ripping…

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          That sinking feeling and the insanity of vanities

          • 14/10/2020
          • Author Jimmy-T

          Part 4 in the Bathroom Chronicles Choosing bathroom fittings is like starting an online dating relationship with someone who seems smart and stylish at first but turns out to be…

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            Why self-financed upgrade could only happen in NSW

            • 28/09/2020
            • Author Jimmy-T

            A small one-bedroom flat in North Bondi was listed for auction last week, with the vendors hoping for about $800,000 when it goes to auction early next month.  Nothing very…

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              Five stages of bathroom renovation grief

              • 23/09/2020
              • Author Jimmy-T

              It’s been about a month since we decided to renovate our 20-year-old bathrooms and we are going through something that is akin to the five stages of grief.  Except, instead…

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                Forum: Space invader demands squatters rights

                • 15/09/2020
                • Author Jimmy-T

                It’s amazing how often this old chestnut comes up and it reminds me of friends who had a “creative” young chap move into their small 1930s walk-up and announce he…

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                  Podcast: Email privacy & Afternoons radio with JV

                  • 08/09/2020
                  • Author Jimmy-T

                  This week’s podcast takes a look at an area of strata life where strata managers could be breaking the law … because apartment-owning clients want them to. We’re talking about…

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                    Wins for Vic residents as lockdown renos halted

                    • 08/09/2020
                    • Author Jimmy-T

                    There have been two pieces of very rare good news for Victorian strata owners and residents, in the past week. The state government has extended the defect claims period for…

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                      ‘Dream’ bathroom project: the nightmare begins

                      • 07/09/2020
                      • Author Jimmy-T

                      There comes a point in the life of every apartment when you have clear-cut choices – renovate your kitchen or bathrooms, or leave them exactly as they are in the…

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                        How to game the home reno grants and win

                        • 29/06/2020
                        • Author Jimmy-T

                        If you’re wondering if you can take advantage of the government’s HomeBuilder renovation grant to improve your investment property, the simple answer is no.  But it could be used to…

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                          Mutually assured distraction … working AT home or ON your home

                          • 25/04/2020
                          • Author Jimmy-T

                          If there was going to be anywhere in these long days of lockdown that mutually exclusive wants and needs were going to butt up against each other, it was apartments.…

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                            ‘Forced sale’ laws breathe new life into old blocks

                            • 05/02/2020
                            • Author Jimmy-T

                            Last year’s slump in apartment sales may have saved some of Sydney’s older apartment blocks from demolition and replacement by something shiny and new … and apartment owners are looking…

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                              From the Forum: Airbnb budget by-law and four reno posers

                              • 17/09/2019
                              • Author Jimmy-T

                              We’re taking moment before our Forum questions this week to urge you not to miss the opportunity to get a cut-price, off-the-peg by-law to prevent Airbnb and other short-term holiday…

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                                Why pre-sale renos could be bad planning

                                • 21/08/2018
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                                For any prospective home buyer with a skerrick of visual imagination, a rundown home is a massive canvas on which to express themselves. That might apply to apartments even more…

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