When hiring a good strata lawyer is a great idea
In this week’s Australian Financial Review I wrote about the value of good strata lawyers and the problems with bad ones. This was prompted by a chat with Amanda Farmer…
In this week’s Australian Financial Review I wrote about the value of good strata lawyers and the problems with bad ones. This was prompted by a chat with Amanda Farmer…
Here’s a conundrum from way out of left field, and then some. One of our Flatchatters has just received a final demand, and a threat of legal action, from a…
This week on the Flat Chat Wrap, as we approach the election, we are looking again at the various parties housing policies and wonder what they really mean. We recorded…
Executive committees could be about to see a mass exodus of office-bearers as a new register of strata schemes takes effect in NSW next month, warn insiders. Simply put, some…
If you haven’t lost your zest for Zoom, even though many people are back in their offices, there’s a strata-related webinar you could check out this week. In a session…
Proponents of electric vehicles are celebrating a huge step forward in the understanding and acceptance of electric vehicle charging in strata buildings after a tickets to a government co-sponsored webinar…
A video has emerged of two thugs approaching the car belonging to the secretary of a strata scheme in Fairfield, Sydney, before one of them walks away and the car…
With the launch of the new electric vehicle charging website at the ‘Drive Electric – EV-ready Buildings’ webinar this week, one of the speakers, Owners Corporation Network (OCN) chair Fred…
Here at Flat Chat we love it when clever-clogs committee members manipulate meetings to get the result they want … but then turn out to be not quite as smart…
Imagine you are the chair or secretary of a strata scheme. You can cope with fielding a reasonable number of messages via the strata manager or building manager. It’s a…
With Australia’s political parties throwing promises of cash around like lottery winners who forgot they didn’t want publicity, our national housing crisis has been one of the more significant targets…
As we never tire of saying, one of the benefits of apartment living is that you can lock up and leave when you on holiday (pets permitting), knowing that everything…