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Forum: Ghosted by our sulking strata managerPodcast: New strata laws – the best and the restCyber scams stealing from first-home buyersTop property website accused of price gougingRANT: New laws mean little without test cases
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Forum: Ghosted by our sulking strata manager

  • 12/06/2025
  • Author Jimmy-T

Forum: When your scheme is ghosted by the SM. Can you renovate in flat pack unit blocks? Fire safety upgrades are nothing to be scared of.

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    Podcast: New strata laws – the best and the rest

    • 12/06/2025
    • Author Jimmy-T

    PODCAST: Jimmy and Sue put the incoming strata laws to the test with SCA-NSW president Robert Anderson.

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      Cyber scams stealing from first-home buyers

      • 12/06/2025
      • Author Alexandra Brooks

      Young Australians struggling to buy their first homes have become easy pickings for cyber criminals who divert their funds to fake bank accounts.

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        Top property website accused of price gouging

        • 11/06/2025
        • Author Alexandra Brooks

        Selling a property? Brace yourself. Australia now ranks among the most expensive countries in the world just to advertise a residential property for sale.

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          RANT: New laws mean little without test cases

          • 11/06/2025
          • Author Jimmy-T

          Changing strata law is a start but our new Strata Commissioner needs to use the financial heft of the State to run test cases and establish precedent.

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            Forum: Why buy into a strata dictatorship?

            • 05/06/2025
            • Author Jimmy-T

            Forum: Avoiding a strata dictatorship, invoices seem to show committee rort, fire safety overcaution danger, and your right to see the strata roll.

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              New strata commissioner starts with first scalp

              • 05/06/2025
              • Author Jimmy-T

              The new NSW strata commissioner already has one scalp in his efforts to rid the sector of bad actors, shonky contracts and rampant rorts.

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                Podcast: Faster and cheaper flat pack flats

                • 05/06/2025
                • Author Jimmy-T

                A new way of building apartment blocks - decribed as a cross between Ikea and Lego, means flats will be built faster, cheaper and with fewer defects

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                  Consumer law to crack down on strata rorts

                  • 05/06/2025
                  • Author Alexandra Brooks

                  From July 1, NSW apartment owners will have something we've always been denied - protection under Australia's consumer laws.

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                    From data to strata: $32m Mosman block shock

                    • 05/06/2025
                    • Author Alexandra Brooks

                    Harbourside haven Mosman in shock as data baron pays $32m to demolish a strata block and rebuild with fewer luxury pads

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                      RANT: Failure to fix and the flowchart of fury

                      • 04/06/2025
                      • Author Jimmy-T

                      RANT: When your strata committee says "no" because they don't know, or they don't want to know, you have to tell them to go with the flow.

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                        Forum: Squatters’ rights for strata land grabbers?

                        • 29/05/2025
                        • Author Jimmy-T

                        Forum: Squatters rights for land grabbers, fined over angry emails, chair reneges on AGM deal, silica dust scare over carpet.

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