One of the suggestions that I made in my overly lengthy submission to the strata law consultations was that seriously incompetent strata managers should face serious penalties, including potentially being…
There’s an element of strata living that many people find frustrating if not infuriating. It can probably be best described as a symbiotic relationship between a strata manager who wants,…
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…
Can there be such a thing as too much information in these confused and trying times? At the risk of nit-picking, the recently issued Strata Community Australia guide to dealing…
How bad does a strata scheme have to be before you head off to NCAT and apply for the appointment of a statutory strata manager? Very, very bad, is the…
I fielded a phone call from a former NSW Fair Trading Minister the other day asking why there isn’t such a thing as a not-for-profit strata management agency. By the…
There are some committees and strata managers that are just too laid back for their own – and their owners’ – good. How many warning notices do you send out…
There’s an interesting statistic that I never tire of quoting: no strata manager in NSW has ever been struck off for being really bad at his or her job. And…
Regular readers will recall the saga of the rogue developer on the far North coast who basically tried to run his new building to suit himself, with no regard for…
More than 200,000 unit owners have been slugged with compulsory ‘compliance fees’ potentially totalling millions of dollars, that critics have branded ‘gouging’. And the NSW Government Minister in charge of…
How bad does your strata committee have to be before a tribunal will sack them and appoint a strata manager to take over? If you can’t vote the committee out,…
Way back in the early days of Flat Chat – about 11 years ago – I wrote a piece for the Sydney Morning Herald called “Send In The Clowns” which…
That old saying of “better the devil you know” rarely applies more than in your choice of strata managers. But if, like one Flat Chat reader, your strata manager’s contract…