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Would you pay $1100 a week to sleep in a cage?

  • 28/08/2025
  • Author Jimmy-T

From a rental for $1100 a week (but you have to sleep in a cage) to living on a cruise ship, all the wackiest property stories of the week are…

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    Minns slams entitled Nimbys and ‘no’ culture

    • 27/08/2025
    • Author Jimmy-T

    In a major speech, NSW Premier Chris Minns accused "entitled Nimbys' of worsening the housing crisis with a culture of saying 'no'.

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      Mac attack – why my bank blocked my account

      • 27/08/2025
      • Author Jimmy-T

      Blocked from his bank account for "security reasons", JimmyT realises his life is mirroring the plot of his new novel.

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        Podcast: Fake hosts in our scariest episode ever

        • 23/08/2025
        • Author Jimmy-T

        The Wrap is back as we dive into Artificial Intelligence with a spookily realistic (and never to be repeated) conversation created by a computer.

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          Forum: Common property and common sense

          • 21/08/2025
          • Author Jimmy-T

          Forum: Can owners and tradies be banned from accessing common property and can they be prevented from talking to the strata manager?

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            Rose Bay residents get a Mascot sinking feeling

            • 21/08/2025
            • Author Jimmy-T

            Rose Bay residents say their homes are already cracking as excavations proceed, and the next unit block could be another Mascot Towers.

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              RANT: Confessions of a recycling psycho

              • 21/08/2025
              • Author Jimmy-T

              RANT: I can just about cope with people who can't be bothered to separate and recycle their rubbish, it's the ones who deliberately stuff it up that irk me.

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                NEWS: No room here for more doom and gloom

                • 21/08/2025
                • Author Jimmy-T

                We're setting the doom and gloom aside this week, at least to begin with, and focussing on the quirkier stories out there.

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                  Victoria takes Chandler path to defect insurance

                  • 14/08/2025
                  • Author Jimmy-T

                  Victoria is bringing in a building bond - and cover inspired by former NSW Building Commissioner David Chandler's defects insurance.

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                    Forum: Pre-votes, paper ballots and proxies

                    • 14/08/2025
                    • Author Jimmy-T

                    Forum: the limit on proxies led to electronic pre-votes and paper votes - but is it a valid vote when an owner sends a note?

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                      Hello new neighbour, now here are my rules

                      • 14/08/2025
                      • Author Jimmy-T

                      RANT: With 50 per cent of apartment residents being renters, there's a fair chance that you'll find a new neighbour to get used to every so often.

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                        NEWS: Bored with the interest rate babble yet?

                        • 14/08/2025
                        • Author Jimmy-T

                        There's been a great deal of babble this week about the interest rate - maybe too much considering the Reserve Bank did exactly what most people predicted?

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