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Brilliant Career mansion ready for set-jetters

  • 27/08/2026
  • Author Jimmy-T

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.

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    Boom time means sunset clawback bids are back

    • 27/08/2026
    • Author Jimmy-T

    How Flat Chat helped to stop developers from cashing in on boom time building delays at off-the-plan purchasers' expense

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      Strata training details: all ifs and buts … little bite

      • 27/08/2026
      • Author Jimmy-T

      NSW compusory strata committee training starts in a month, but are the rules too toothless to have any real bite?

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        Forum: Can vexatious litigants be made to pay?

        • 20/08/2026
        • Author Jimmy-T

        Forum: Vexatious litigants defined, verbal agreement for cage denied, security door banned, fixed leased ending and double glazing doubts.

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          Chandler was target of Liberal smear campaign

          • 20/08/2026
          • Author Jimmy-T

          Former Building Commissioner David Chandler is back in the spotlight, with a reminder that he's a man not to be messed with.

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            Quirky: Would you house your granny in a pod?

            • 20/08/2026
            • Author Jimmy-T

            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.

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              News: Spoof townhouse ad was real after all

              • 20/08/2026
              • Author Jimmy-T

              News: Cut-price "spoof" real estate ad listing all the problems with living in this strata scheme turns out to be real.

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                Forum: How can you evict a ‘ghost’ strata squatter?

                • 13/08/2026
                • Author Jimmy-T

                Forum: A 'ghost' squatter is neither a tenant, an owner nor a guest - so how can the strata committee curb his bad behaviour?

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                  Working from home, wall beds and weirdos

                  • 13/08/2026
                  • Author Jimmy-T

                  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.

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                    Residue from meth lab makes tenant’s kid sick

                    • 13/08/2026
                    • Author Jimmy-T

                    QUIRKY: The things we leave behind, from methamphetamine residue, to walls stuffed with catalogues to a hidden indoor swimming pool.

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                      The units now arriving at platform one…

                      • 13/08/2026
                      • Author Jimmy-T

                      NEWS: 12,000 apartments to take the Metro to two Sydney suburbs while hotel plans in Melbourne and Canberra are switched to units.

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                        Chandler champions low-cost fast-track apartments

                        • 13/08/2026
                        • Author Jimmy-T

                        Former Building Commissioner David Chandler is back with a "disruptive" plan to build more affordable apartment blocks.

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