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.
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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…
Strata managers slam $2.3bn solar energy snub
Australia’s strata managers’ attack Labor's plan to exclude apartment blocks from promised battery storage bonus.
Forum: One-man-band squeezes minority to sell
Forum: Majority owner forcing sales, tenant pet laws concerns, talking to potential buyers, waterproofing in a townhouse bathroom, intrusive lighting result.
Strata shock! Why your levies are way too high
Why are your levies a lot higher than you expected? There's no mystery and you can reduce them – if you’re prepared to get stuck in.
Podcast: Block voting and election home truths
Podcast: Parties promise more homes (with very different policies), Vic to get low-rise blocks, Strata managers want national defects protection and rents rise.
Strata managers demand more defect protections
The national president of Strata Community Association - the strata managers' body - calls for a nationwide policy on better protection from building defects
Forum: The irrestible attraction of a local fly tip
Forum: Fly-tipping, damage from a leak and insurance, committee member's abuse, how much should be in the sinking fund, liability for damage from ignored faults.
Podcast: Pets unleashed, flat finding for a friend
Podcast: Tenants' pets unleashed - the plusses and minuses of landlords no longer being able to say no to pets while Sue goes flat-hunting for a friend.
Forum: $90k bonus for wrangling block sale
Forum: Block sale windfall, secretary stymies repairs, water heater locked away, smal block seeks, managers, developer says repairs anr one time only
Old laws and lack of regs stifling Qld strata – Bos
Queensland's out-of-date laws, non-existent strata manager regulations and inadequate property rights are stifling a solution to the housing crisis, says Laura Bos