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Podcast: Is this the end of balcony laundry bans?

  • 18/06/2025
  • Author Jimmy-T

Podcast: The NSW government may have inadvertently sparked a war over drying laundry on your balcony with new laws about sustainability infrastructure.

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    RANT: Unenforceable laws worse than no laws

    • 18/06/2025
    • Author Jimmy-T

    There are new strata laws coming in ... but if some are unenforceable, aren't they worse than no laws at all?

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      Podcast: New strata laws – the best and the rest

      • 12/06/2025
      • Author Jimmy-T

      PODCAST: Jimmy and Sue put the incoming strata laws to the test with SCA-NSW president Robert Anderson.

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        Cyber scams stealing from first-home buyers

        • 12/06/2025
        • Author Alexandra Brooks

        Young Australians struggling to buy their first homes have become easy pickings for cyber criminals who divert their funds to fake bank accounts.

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          Top property website accused of price gouging

          • 11/06/2025
          • Author Alexandra Brooks

          Selling a property? Brace yourself. Australia now ranks among the most expensive countries in the world just to advertise a residential property for sale.

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            RANT: New laws mean little without test cases

            • 11/06/2025
            • Author Jimmy-T

            Changing strata law is a start but our new Strata Commissioner needs to use the financial heft of the State to run test cases and establish precedent.

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              Forum: Why buy into a strata dictatorship?

              • 05/06/2025
              • Author Jimmy-T

              Forum: Avoiding a strata dictatorship, invoices seem to show committee rort, fire safety overcaution danger, and your right to see the strata roll.

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                New strata commissioner starts with first scalp

                • 05/06/2025
                • Author Jimmy-T

                The new NSW strata commissioner already has one scalp in his efforts to rid the sector of bad actors, shonky contracts and rampant rorts.

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                  Podcast: Faster and cheaper flat pack flats

                  • 05/06/2025
                  • Author Jimmy-T

                  A new way of building apartment blocks - decribed as a cross between Ikea and Lego, means flats will be built faster, cheaper and with fewer defects

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                    Consumer law to crack down on strata rorts

                    • 05/06/2025
                    • Author Alexandra Brooks

                    From July 1, NSW apartment owners will have something we've always been denied - protection under Australia's consumer laws.

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                      From data to strata: $32m Mosman block shock

                      • 05/06/2025
                      • Author Alexandra Brooks

                      Harbourside haven Mosman in shock as data baron pays $32m to demolish a strata block and rebuild with fewer luxury pads

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                        RANT: Failure to fix and the flowchart of fury

                        • 04/06/2025
                        • Author Jimmy-T

                        RANT: When your strata committee says "no" because they don't know, or they don't want to know, you have to tell them to go with the flow.

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