Strata managers have shuffled into the Forum spotlight this week, prompting questions about, it seems, lack of knowledge or understanding of basic strata law. Take a co-owner self-nominating for election…
Is the wall between my bathroom and lounge room common property? What about my ceiling? Or my floating timber floor? The questions of what is or isn’t common property and…
A couple of issues popped on to the Flat Chat radar while we were off being festive. One was all about smoking on balconies which, if that wasn’t serious enough,…
Thousands more renters will face serious financial challenges this year as subsidised properties drop out of a national affordable housing scheme, claims housing pressure group Everybody’s Home. Its spokesperson says…
The recent win by NSW apartment dwellers over their balcony smoking neighbours sent a puff of panic through strata smokers and their barbecuing brethren. However, nicotine addicts need not have…
Happy New Year! Well, you have been busy bees over the holidays. All those questions you’ve wanted to write but never had the time … until now. So we’re back…
OK, I admit it – we’ve been in holiday mode. Could we have cobbled together a podcast on Sunday morning after New Year’s Eve (or Hogmanay, as we call it…
The recent Sydney Morning Herald story about a couple who – at the third attempt – won a case to get their neighbours to stop smoking on their balcony may…
Have you made your New Year’s resolutions? Yes, it’s that time of year when we make promises to ourselves to do better than we did last time around. They tend…
There are a few quibbles this week about changes to common property and what happens if they are made without proper by-laws. Now, in NSW at least, if you need…
With a second series of streaming comedy-crime-drama Only Murders in the Building underway, the true stories have emerged of the two famous – if not notorious – New York apartment…
In this our last Flat Chat Wrap podcast of the year, we kick the tyres of a couple of issues that will have consequences throughout strata. Or will they? And…