Roundup: When business bags your parking spots
The often irreconcilable differences between strata residents and commercial operators in the same scheme are to the fore in the Flat Chat Forum this week, with two tales with sadly…
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Balcony smokers in your top three strata gripes
The results of our recent poll are in – not as definitive as a general election but more accurate than Peter Dutton’s guesstimate of his support – and there is…
Cladding crisis: Who pays for rip down and replacement?
The flammable cladding crisis is not going away any time soon and very different approaches from our two most populous states don’t make the solution any clearer. More than 400 high-rise…
POLL: If you had three strata wishes …
Most of us like living in strata most of the time. We know this because we vote with our wallets and purses, and the median cost of buying and renting…
Roundup: Revealing neighbours and palace coups
There are a couple of issues of an … um … delicate nature in this week’s crop of posts to the Forum. In one, a Flatchatter asks if residents can…
Airbnb laws fail as high-rise party gang riots and robs
Deep flaws in the Victorian government’s laissez faire short-term holiday letting laws were exposed at the weekend when a groups of partying teenagers ran riot in a Melbourne Airbnb rental,…
Over 400 blocks identified with high-risk cladding in NSW
A total of 435 high-rise buildings at “potentially high risk” from flammable cladding fires, have been identified by the NSW state government and Fire and Rescue NSW (FRNSW), according to…
Quiz: Do you know your TV and movie apartments?
There’s a theory that seeing so many apartments in TV shows and movies, especially American ones, made apartment living more attractive to Australians. Maybe … maybe not. Why not have…
How your pad could star in the new series of a TV favourite
How would you like your apartment to be the star of a TV show? No, we’re not sending a bunch of Blockheads around to renovate – the second series of…
Roundup: The votes are in – noise annoys you most
Guess what! The thing that annoys us most about each other, is noise. Who knew? Far and away the most popular choice in our fun quiz about what irritates us…
Lacrosse owners take out $11m loan to replace cladding
Owners at Melbourne’s Lacrosse building have taken out an $11 million loan with strata finance providers Lannock to cover replacing the building’s combustible cladding after the fire at the residential tower in the city’s…
Climate shame when strata airs its dirty laundry
It seems that energy prices and the belief (or not) that there’s such a thing as global warming have the power to topple Prime Ministers. The fossil fuel versus renewables…