Plug-in or pump – there’s no real need for speed
COMMENT: How we've been brainwashed by pumping petrol into thinking our cars need to be fuelled to the brim while we stand, pump in hand.
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Brilliant Career mansion ready for set-jetters
QUIRKY: Locals complain that their area isn't promoted enough in the new Netflix adaption of My Brilliant Career - just wait till the set-jetters land.
Boom time means sunset clawback bids are back
How Flat Chat helped to stop developers from cashing in on boom time building delays at off-the-plan purchasers' expense
Strata training details: all ifs and buts … little bite
NSW compusory strata committee training starts in a month, but are the rules too toothless to have any real bite?
Forum: Can vexatious litigants be made to pay?
Forum: Vexatious litigants defined, verbal agreement for cage denied, security door banned, fixed leased ending and double glazing doubts.
Chandler was target of Liberal smear campaign
Former Building Commissioner David Chandler is back in the spotlight, with a reminder that he's a man not to be messed with.
Quirky: Would you house your granny in a pod?
Quirky: Okay, maybe we're taking the term "granny flat" too literally but some of these new high-tech pods are bigger than studio flats.
News: Spoof townhouse ad was real after all
News: Cut-price "spoof" real estate ad listing all the problems with living in this strata scheme turns out to be real.
Forum: How can you evict a ‘ghost’ strata squatter?
Forum: A 'ghost' squatter is neither a tenant, an owner nor a guest - so how can the strata committee curb his bad behaviour?
Working from home, wall beds and weirdos
Those space-saving ideas from boats and caravans aren't as crazy as they seem ... but the people who live with them are a different story.
Residue from meth lab makes tenant’s kid sick
QUIRKY: The things we leave behind, from methamphetamine residue, to walls stuffed with catalogues to a hidden indoor swimming pool.
The units now arriving at platform one…
NEWS: 12,000 apartments to take the Metro to two Sydney suburbs while hotel plans in Melbourne and Canberra are switched to units.