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Podcast: New pet laws and defining ‘reasonable’

  • 16/02/2021
  • Author Jimmy-T

In this week’s podcast we give the NSW Parliament’s deliberations on it’s new strata pet laws a kick along. As reported here, the Lower House has taken a good six…

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    Finding homes for strata’s invisible 25 per cent

    • 25/01/2021
    • Author Jimmy-T

    Who do you think lives in apartments in our big cities?  Are most other apartment dwellers just like you or are you somehow different from the mob? Based on a…

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      Forum: Landlady dives in before tenant has left

      • 05/01/2021
      • Author Jimmy-T

      When does a residential lease end? According to the standard lease (in Victoria) it’s on the date when the lease expires, unless a different arrangement is agreed. According to Tenants…

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        Rents drop as Airbnb flats return to residential lets

        • 29/11/2020
        • Author Jimmy-T

        The pandemic hasn’t quite killed off short-term holiday letting but it’s certainly applied a hefty brake – at least as far as our cities are concerned. The return to the…

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          Rental as anything – new app by-passes agents

          • 26/11/2020
          • Author Jimmy-T

          New research has revealed that both tenants and landlords believe unhelpful real estate agents are among the biggest obstacles to their happy co-existence. Research commissioned by the founders of a…

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            Podcast 99: Long-term rental will tempt tenants

            • 10/11/2020
            • Author Jimmy-T

            This week we returned to a topic we raised in the last podcast, namely build-to-rent and specifically the new Liv Indigo building at Sydney Olympic Park. They held an open…

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              Rents rollercoaster as Airbnbs abandoned

              • 27/10/2020
              • Author Jimmy-T

              Rents in Sydney’s suburbs have been on a rollercoaster for the past few months, with the obvious culprit being the Covid-19 pandemic and all its side-effects. But while some areas…

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                Loneliness of the high rise residents left behind

                • 20/10/2020
                • Author Jimmy-T

                Is there such a thing as “undercrowding”? There may well be with the centres of some of our biggest cities turning into ghost towns as Covid-19 restrictions bite, workers flee…

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                  New rules on rent relief and evictions announced

                  • 13/04/2020
                  • Author Jimmy-T

                  Since at least half of the residents in strata are renters (meaning about half of the properties are owned by landlords) the recent announcements about the moratorium on evictions and…

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                    Podcast 64: New rent laws but same old story with point-scoring pollies

                    • 18/03/2020
                    • Author Jimmy-T

                    In this week’s Podcast, Jimmy and Sue examine the plusses and minuses in the new NSW rental laws, which tilt things in tenants’ favour but don’t go all the way.…

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                      From the Forum: Landlady too nice for her own good

                      • 11/12/2019
                      • Author Jimmy-T

                      There are times when I think some of our Flatchatters are just too nice for their own good. Take this week’s first correspondent whose tenant has been illegally parking his…

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                        From the Forum: Treasurer pumping cash for dubious rent of space

                        • 14/05/2019
                        • Author Jimmy-T

                        There are times when strata committee office-bearers get themselves into trouble for no good reason, like simply failing to keep their paperwork up to date. And there are others when…

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                          Smoke alarm and rent rise shocks in Airbnb lets

                          • 30/03/2019
                          • Author Jimmy-T

                          Smoke alarms that either don’t exist or are covered up, higher rents for permanent residents and a new service that helps hosts find somewhere to stay when they are renting…

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                            Flat Chat Wrap #4 – Homeless on common property & build-to-rent in the USA

                            • 22/11/2018
                            • Author JD Thomson

                            Homeless people sleeping in common property and – a world away – what it’s like to live in a ‘build-to-rent’ apartment in the USA.  The Flat Chat Wrap takes an…

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                              When you can sue over loss of rent due to renos

                              • 28/07/2018
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                              We’ve had a lot of discussion recently about whether or not owners can claim compensation for things like loss of rent when renovations – either by individual owners or by…

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                                Live where you love, buy where you can afford

                                • 25/06/2018
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                                There are few feelings of financial disappointment greater than scrimping and saving (not to mention begging and borrowing) for a deposit only to see the prospects of living where you…

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                                  Rental data reveals … not a lot, really

                                  • 29/08/2017
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                                  Here at Flat Chat we are all in favour of transparency and freely available information.  But we’ re scratching our heads at the latest step in that direction by the…

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                                    New options put renters first in housing affordability

                                    • 20/08/2017
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                                    There are two new buzz-phrases in the housing affordability lexicon – ‘build-to-rent’ and ‘rent-to-own’. Build-to-rent and rent-to-own are at opposite ends of the housing culture spectrum but both are being…

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