Jimmy-T – FLAT CHAT

Secrets of strata living … it’s all in the game

How can we prepare future generations for their lives in flats and townhouses, asks a leading strata manager. The answer may be in game play.

Lawyer in the Hot Seat – your questions answered

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Strata committee training survey a lesson for all

A survey into strata committee training - compulsory in NSW from later this year - is a lesson to all concerned about what owners want and need.

Forum: How they put porn on our block’s TVs

Forum: Neighbours spying on neighbours, developers loading strata committees, landlords charging for lightbulb, who's reponsible for tree lopping?

Defect reports rising… but so is confidence

Defect reporting is rising, but this could be a good thing if it means owners' confidence in getting fixes is increasing even more.

Podcast: How green strata can be a good buy

Podcast: How green strata can be a good investment, developers dominating strata committees and the immigration and housing conundrum.

Podcast: Who lives where and why in strata

Podcast: New UNSW Strata Insight report reveals how many people live in strata, who they are, where they live and why.

Forum: Our bidet eyes on a bathroom reno

Forum: Tenant wants a bidet, new manager and old debt, effect of abstentions, committe refuses to claim, and strata manager contract challenge.

Best way to contact the Strata Taskforce

Our 'direct line' to the Strata Taskforce turns out to be a long way round for readers seeking urgent answers to pressing strata questions.

Forum: When a sticky-beak is a spying mission

Forum: When a sticky beak is spying, permission to add a storey, strata committee ignoring tribunal orders and how a tied vote passed an AGM resolution.

Podcast: Defective thinking on three fronts

There’s a lot going on in the strata sphere this week, starting with the Sydney Morning Herald’s big expose on building defects. It’s well worth reading but it’s funny how every time…