Forum: Back-to-school daze for Qs and As
A strange thing happens on Flat Chat around this time of year. Actually, it’s not that strange – it’s related to school holidays, and makes perfect sense. I’m guessing our…
A strange thing happens on Flat Chat around this time of year. Actually, it’s not that strange – it’s related to school holidays, and makes perfect sense. I’m guessing our…
Oh, dear. Not another swipe at strata managers, please! Yes, OK, it’s a well-trodden path but, to be fair, some of them have made themselves easy targets for the past…
If you thought the dust had settled on the Netstrata schemozzle, think again. The strata management giant is currently reaching the end of what can only be described as a…
Over 25 years ago our regular guest columnist Francesco Andreone enthusiastically promoted by-laws as the best way to customise strata building operations. However, he now thinks the proliferation of strata…
A NSW strata manager has been “struck off” for 10 years by NSW Fair Trading following four years of complaints from at least six different strata schemes. According to the…
Casting my eye back over the past two decades of writing about strata, I was reminded of how a simple question on an email led to strata law being changed…
For the past few weeks, we have been running pieces by our friend Francesco Andreone of GoStrata. Last week I returned the favour by providing him with my recollections of…
In this week’s podcast we take a look at Sues story about people buying property, not only with the help of Mum and Dad, but with investment from extended family…
NSW Building Commissioner David Chandler has named nine areas in NSW where there has been a history of defective apartment block developments, and he strongly advises potential apartment purchasers, there…
It’s that time of year when we are all thinking about tax – if only because we have been bombarded with ad for EOFY (End of Financial Year) sales and…
The growing global movement against Airbnb and its ilk is finally gathering momentum both here in Australia and overseas. When rough sleeping and homelessness is at an all-time high, tenants…
Tickets are running out for the inaugural Strata Impact Conference on the Gold Coast at the very beginning of next month, your chance to see and hear a stack of…