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There’s nothing that quite matches the feeling of frustration and helplessness when the professionals that you count on to do the right thing are doing the opposite. It doesn’t have…
There’s nothing that quite matches the feeling of frustration and helplessness when the professionals that you count on to do the right thing are doing the opposite. It doesn’t have…
Do you have a bucket list of things you want to do and places you want to visit? For those of you unfamiliar with its origins, a bucket list is…
This second part of Lawyer In The Hotseat opens with an apology for promoting a discussion on ebikes in last week’s podcast, forgetting that it’s actually in this, the second…
Building Commissioner David Chandler is to retire in August – but he says dodgy developers might want to keep their celebrations on hold until they see what his successors bring…
The NSW Strata Commissioner and Fair Trading have launched an independent review of strata management giant Netstrata following an expose last month of the company’s insurance practices on ABC TV.…
The age-old question of residents parking in visitor spaces raises its ugly head again this week. And it comes via a question that has its roots in the Flat Chat…
Here’s a thought to chill the heart of any strata “bush lawyer”; Some strata laws are manadatory and some are regulatory. What that means is that there are laws that…
The Owners Corporation Network (OCN) has a whole raft of webinars lined up for the next few months, where you can hear experts describe how to deal with all-too common…
Who can be elected to your strata committee? More to the point, who can’t? The answer to the first question, in NSW at least, is just about anybody, including non-owners…
I have a few words of encouragement and comfort for anyone who thinks they are stuck with a dysfunctional committee, or is on a committee with a destructively disruptive member.…
This week’s Flat Chat Wrap covers a lot of ground. including a prison cell in in a studio flat – seriously! – in the same small town in England where our very…
There were a lot of questions that remained following the devastating report on ABC TV into allegations that strata management giant Netstrata had side-stepped regulations on declaring commissions for insurance…