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Forum: Can an unseen screen change ‘appearance’?

  • 06/12/2023
  • Author Jimmy-T

Having spent years trying to answer readers’ questions or, more to the point, allowing Flatchatters to answer each other’s, I have a question for you. I have recently bought an…

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    ‘Reno Queen’ to transform trendy burb’s tiny studio

    • 06/12/2023
    • Author Jimmy-T

    Cherie Barber, known as Australia’s “Reno Queen”, (you could probably put TV in there too) has acquired one of Sydney’s smallest apartments. It’s one of those moves that the less confident…

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      Serious defects in half of NSW strata buildings

      • 06/12/2023
      • Author Jimmy-T

      If Building Commissioner David Chandler needed validation for supersizing his department from 40 to 400 defects detectors, it didn’t take long to arrive. A new report issued this week reveals…

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        ‘Accident’ reveals high-rise plans for rail hubs

        • 06/12/2023
        • Author Jimmy-T

        Someone in the NSW government’s planning department – or maybe IT section –  may be packing their “You don’t have to be mad to work here but it helps” coffee…

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          Lock up and Leave: The first (not last) resort?

          • 06/12/2023
          • Author Jimmy-T

          In recent weeks we’ve been sending readers off to India, Spain, Fiji and Japan but this week we’re going somewhere much more familiar and closer to home. As you can…

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            Podcast: Chandler’s army ready for inspections

            • 06/12/2023
            • Author Jimmy-T

            Don’t know if Building Commissioner David Chandler has a hotline to Santa but with the Building Commission being boosted from 40 to 400 inspectors, you’d have to think all his Christmas…

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              E-bike battery by-law and webinar on the way

              • 05/12/2023
              • Author Jimmy-T

              Out walking the other day we passed a backpacker hostel in Sydney’s Kings Cross where, on a Sunday morning there were no fewer that eight food delivery e-bikes chained to…

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                Seller beware! Building Commission supersized

                • 05/12/2023
                • Author Jimmy-T

                Dodgy developers watch out – the NSW Building Commission has just been boosted from 40 officers to 400. This much needed confidence boost for building quality has arrived for NSW…

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                  Forum: Would you let an American staffy in?

                  • 01/12/2023
                  • Author Jimmy-T

                  We have all become used to the idea that you can’t ban all pets or even all dogs from your strata block, but can you ban them selectively? The theory…

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                    Lock up and leave: Sue wins travel writing award

                    • 30/11/2023
                    • Author Jimmy-T

                    We’re celebrating in Flat Chat central this week as our very own Sue Williams has won the Australian Society of Travel Writers award for the best travel news story of…

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                      Mascot owners’ plan to walk away is blocked

                      • 30/11/2023
                      • Author Jimmy-T

                      Owners in the Mascot tower have failed in their efforts to have the collective sale of the block authorised so that they could sell the site to the highest bidder…

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                        Podcast: Star-struck buyers, Mascot misery

                        • 29/11/2023
                        • Author Jimmy-T

                        It’s a packed Wrap this week with a lot happening in and around strata. Global credit rating and data analysis agency Equifax – the people who measure how many of…

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