Forum: Ghosted by our sulking strata manager
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
PODCAST: Jimmy and Sue put the incoming strata laws to the test with SCA-NSW president Robert Anderson.
RANT: New laws mean little without test cases
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.
Forum: Why buy into a strata dictatorship?
Forum: Avoiding a strata dictatorship, invoices seem to show committee rort, fire safety overcaution danger, and your right to see the strata roll.
New strata commissioner starts with first scalp
The new NSW strata commissioner already has one scalp in his efforts to rid the sector of bad actors, shonky contracts and rampant rorts.
Podcast: Faster and cheaper flat pack flats
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
RANT: Failure to fix and the flowchart of fury
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.
Forum: Squatters’ rights for strata land grabbers?
Forum: Squatters rights for land grabbers, fined over angry emails, chair reneges on AGM deal, silica dust scare over carpet.
Podcast: On ABC radio with James Valentine
Every two weeks, Jimmyt goes on James Valentine's Afternoons on ABC Sydney. Here's a taste of what they discussed last week - starting with stuff on balconies.
Forum: Can we hire tradies without paying SM?
Forum: Can you hire a gardener directly? Advice needed on collective sale. Chair hates new air-con. Owners add a room. Drying carpets after upstairs fire.
Podcast: Hot Seat Part 2 – Vexatious litigants
Podcast: In this second part of Lawyer in the Hot Seat, David Bannerman answers questions about vexatious litigants, internal disputes and embedded networks.
Japanese investors join Darling Harbour project
Mirvac hopes to entice more Japanese investors as it plans 48-storey high rise for Darling Harbour in Sydney.