PODCAST: Loopholes and pitfalls in new holiday letting rules
Just when you thought it was safe to dip your toe into the Airbnb discussion, it turns out the new laws are not what they seem. The 180-day cap on…
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Jail time plan for illegal Airbnb hosts
Here’s an interesting thought. Talking to Owners Corporation Network deputy chair Jane Hearn the other day about who should run NSW’s register of short-term holiday lets (STHLs), she said, why…
Mediation and misplaced expectations of a win
We hear a lot about mediation and conciliation in apartment living disputes – but what do the terms mean? Many apartment residents go to mediation thinking they are going to…
Celebrate Dog Day by adopting rather than shopping for a pet
Did you know last Monday (August 26) was International Dog Day? No, me neither. But last week the media office for NSW Minister for Local Government Shelley Hancock sent out…
Flat Chat Wrap #38 – Mediation, revolution and crazy planning objections
This week the Flat Chat Wrap podcast is all about conflict and various forms of resolution … including revolution. First Sue Williams and I take a look at we take…
From the Forum: Zombie proxies and dead levies
Here’s a question that becomes more relevant as increasing numbers of oldies move into strata … and then pass on. Obviously, the petty politics of strata schemes are the last…
PODCAST: Mediation, revolution and crazy Nimby objections
This week the Flat Chat Wrap podcast is all about conflict and various forms of resolution … including revolution. First Sue Williams and I take a look at we take…
Will Airbnb registry be a self-inflicted wound?
As they try to untangle the apartment block defects mess largely created by self-certification, you might think the last thing NSW politicians would consider would be putting foxes in charge…
Flat Chat Wrap #37 – Defects loans, Airbnb rules and sex in the spa
It’s a real mixed bag in this week’s Flat Chat Wrap podcast – finance, Airbnb and sneaky sex. Sue Williams and I start our dissection of the week’s strata news…
From The Forum: Dog-minding in a one-bedder
We are all for the entrepreneurial spirit, here at Flat Chat … except when it comes to turning your apartment into a business that has a detrimental effect on other…
Changes bring us a baby-step closer to uniform strata laws
Changes to strata laws are on the way or being considered all over Australia and the first cab off that rank will be modifications to NSW conveyancing laws due to…
OCN blasts ‘hands-off’ regulations after Four Corners TV report
Australia’s main apartment owners’ organisation claims unit residents have been left in the lurch by developers and builders thanks to “hands off” government regulations that allowed the construction of sub-standard…