Roundup – Return of the Zombie Forum topics
Jeez, there are some people who just shouldn’t be living in strata, aren’t there? As I said last week, it’s one of quirks of this website that we occasionally have…
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Podcast: Inside a strata disaster … a pet ban backfires
I am occasionally asked how come I ever got into writing about apartment living. After all, I’m a published author, have been a reasonabIy successful TV scriptwriter and occasionally still…
Flat Chat Wrap #9 – How a pet ban led to the birth of Flat Chat
Jimmy and Sue look back at the first time they bought off the plan … and how it led to Flat Chat
Roundup: An answer for both the Opal and Airbnb
Hold your applause, folks, but I think I’ve come up with a solution to both the Opal Tower crisis and the blight of Airbnb on our apartment blocks. See, maybe…
Flat Chat Wrap #8 – The crumbling Opal Tower and the whole defects disaster
JimmyT and Sue Williams ask the questions everyone else is avoiding, and provide the answers people need to hear, about the Opal Tower in Sydney and the whole defects disaster…
Roundup: Opal mining and balcony madness
Happy New Year! A great deal of attention for the last week has been focussed on the Opal Tower crisis, for good reason. But it’s not just the cracks in…
On TV talking cracks in the Opal
Despite having a great head for radio, I was enticed on to TV last Saturday (Dec 29) to talk building cracks with Professor Mark Hoffman (one of the engineers called…
Roundup: No smoke as strata residents ignored yet again
As I sit on an island off Cambodia, dealing with the consequences of risking one “street food” meal too many, a very urgent and important email from the government pops…
Flat Chat Wrap #7 – Are your levies too high
How to work out if your levies are too high, the sensible controls that have led Airbnb to threaten politicians’ votes and nominations for our Heroes and Villains of Strata.
Roundup – even from a distance, cladding plan looks thin
Greetings from Cambodia! OK, the picture above is from the centre of Saigon but we stopped off for a few days on our way to Angkor Wat. Anyway, how would…
Roundup: Something fishy when they say we live like sardines
I’m not one to jump on Nimbys (Not In My Back Yard) – most of us think there should be shelters for the homeless, and halfway houses for former jail…
Flat Chat Wrap #6 – Renovations and recalcitrant owners … with James Valentine
Permissions for minor renovations, one owner in four blocking changes and … of course … Airbnb come to the fore as Jimmy joins James Valentine on his afternoon show on…