Podcast: Could AI spell the end of Flat Chat?
Jimmy and Sue discuss what happens when you ask an AI chatbot a question about strata. The answers are amazing, amusing and alarming - for very different reasons.
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SCA-NSW to get lessons in professional ethics
The Professional Standards Authority is to engage with Strata Community Association (SCA-NSW) to ensure it is complying with its own code of ethics.
Forum: Blast from the past takes a toilet break
A Flatchatter looking for an answer to a pressing problem uses our search function and finds a blast from the distant past which is still relevant today.
IMHO: Let’s hear it for hip and cool hearing aids
Hearing aids don't make you look older - asking people to repeat themselves does. And now you can use your earbuds as basic aids, look cool and hear everything.
Five-fold increase in insurance costs ‘justified’
A major insurer was justified in raising strata premiums by 500% due to four-year claims history, according to finance watchdog AFCA.
Pets and fee-free rents in tenancy law reforms
The NSW government is to introduce a suite of measures to make life better for tenants, who comprise more than half of the residents of strata in the state, including…
Podcast: A simple (free) solution to strata strife
JImmy and Sue chat with Tim Sara of Strata Choice about how the strata management industry is coping with all the recent ructions and how he sees the way ahead…
Windows, sliding doors and the DBPA regs
The whole vexed question of who is responsible for windows and sliding balcony doors has been a frequent topic of discussion on this website – not least because it depends…
New laws passed to crack down on rogue SMs
New laws designed to crack down on strata managers receiving secret kickbacks while introducing higher penalties for agents doing the wrong thing, have passed the NSW parliament, the government announced…
Forum: Changing our tune over noise complaints
Sometimes we feel like we are being led up the garden path by you lovely people, especially on the Forum. A poster in the past week was worried about neighbours’…
IMHO: Why pets are props in property shots
Hot on the heels of our comments that PR companies are using less-than-authoritative surveys to fabricate news stories to promote their clients’ wares comes information about a “new trend” where…
Strata Trapped: Manager lashes out at ABC
Michael Lee, a strata manager and committee chair highlighted in the ABC TV Four Corners report The Strata Trap, has lashed out at the controversial documentary’s allegations, saying they contain…