Holiday let firm exposed by Flat Chat goes bust owing $3.6m
A company exposed by Flat Chat three years ago for encouraging Chinese investors to get around proposed “ghost apartment” taxes by letting their properties on Airbnb, has gone bust, owning…
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Flat Chat Wrap #44 – Pet death threat and dodgy votes
In this week’s podcast JimmyT and Sue Williams look again at the issue of the overturning of the pet ban by-law in one of Sydneys biggest and poshest apartment blocks,…
Tenants lured with big bucks to sub-let properties on Airbnb
By Jimmy Thomson The prospect of six-figure earnings is being used to lure rent-investors into sub-letting multiple residential properties through holiday letting websites like Airbnb – without owning any…
From the Forum: Committee causing parking problems
We fielded a curious question about parking that drew a very enlightening response, this week. One of our Flatchatters can’t easily get to her garage because other residents – including…
PODCAST – Pet warning and dodgy voting stats
SHOW NOTES In this week’s podcast JimmyT and Sue Williams look again at the issue of the overturning of the pet ban by-law in one of Sydneys biggest and poshest…
Flat Chat Wrap #44 – Pet death threat and dodgy votes
In this week’s podcast JimmyT and Sue Williams look again at the issue of the overturning of the pet ban by-law in one of Sydneys biggest and poshest apartment blocks,…
How to build a better building facilities manager
In these days of Trumpian hyperbole, you’d hesitate to brand anyone as the best or the worst in their field, unless they had a gold medal around their neck or…
Pet death threat as block appeals by-law ban
Residents in one of Sydney’s top apartment blocks have been warned they may have to have their newly bought or adopted dogs and cats put down, or move out themselves,…
Dardanelle Towers, Episode 3 – Sniffing Glue
Blame the bank holiday, the Rugby World Cup or the need for a break, but we thought we’d revisit our old friends at the fictional (or is it?) apartment block…
One Central Park named in world’s top tall blocks
Sydney’s eye-catching One Central Park has been named one of the 50 most influential tall buildings of the last 50 years in the international Council on Tall Buildings and Urban…
From the Forum: Ex-member driving tradies away
One of the oddities of strata life has popped up this week with a sacked committee owner wreaking revenge on his neighbours through nefarious but strictly legal means. With clearly…
PODCAST: Dardanelle Towers – Episode 3: Sniffing Glue
Blame the bank holiday, the Rugby World Cup or the need for a break, but we thought we’d revisit our old friends at the fictional (or is it?) apartment block…