Lannock offer to cladding blocks as lender backs off
The announcement that one of the country’s biggest non-bank mortgage lenders will refuse to finance the purchase of apartments known or suspected of having flammable cladding on or in their…
Featured
Strata email defamation leads to $120k damages
There’s a lesson for anyone who’s ever tempted to fire off an angry, sarcastic or frustrated email to their strata committee – a defamation case over emails has cost one…
From the Forum: Biometric blue as kids banned from pool
Oh my goodness! Every so often I think, sooner or later, most of the problems in StrataLand will have been resolved, everybody will know what they’re doing, all the questions…
Flat Chat Wrap #25 – Working out what to do and what you need in your gym
JimmyT and fitness trainer Shannon Cleary discuss what works and what doesn’t in apartment block gyms … and what to do if you don’t have one.
PODCAST: Working out how to make the most of your unit block gym
Our article this week about the fabulous Parker rental apartment complex in Alexandria, Washington DC, got me thinking about the facilities that are intended to entice us to buy and…
Flat Chat Wrap #25 – Working out what to do and what you need in your gym
JimmyT and fitness trainer Shannon Cleary discuss what works and what doesn’t in apartment block gyms … and what to do if you don’t have one.
Dog parks, virtual golf and club rooms – the future of apartment living
There is a growing division in the world of apartment living and it’s not, for a change, between owners and renters. It’s between the haves and the have-nots. There are…
Flat Chat Wrap #24: Silly by-laws to orgies – a strata manager speaks
JimmyT talks to Tim Sara, a senior manager at one of Australia’s biggest strata management companies – and reveals both the light and dark side of a challenging career.
From the Forum: Treasurer pumping cash for dubious rent of space
There are times when strata committee office-bearers get themselves into trouble for no good reason, like simply failing to keep their paperwork up to date. And there are others when…
PODCAST: Silly by-laws to sex orgies – a strata manager reveals all
When Flat Chat started about 15 years ago, strata managers were (we thought) public enemy number one. And it’s more than likely the feeling was mutual. We won’t go into…
Owners in nine blocks told to check slabs over suspect engineering
Owners in nine different apartment blocks have been ordered to have their building structures checked because of concerns about the way they were constructed. The blocks, in Darwin and nearby…
What to do when your door lock is spying on you
A couple of weeks ago, in the Flat Chat Wrap podcast, we talked about a woman in a Sydney apartment block who was locked out of her building when she…