Rent relief extended for landlords and tenants
The NSW Government has announced an increase to the Residential Tenancy Support Package to up to $4,500 per tenancy and an extension to the eviction moratorium until 11 November 2021,…
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Chant calls for roll updates and strata gym closures
A letter from Chief Medical Officer Kerry Chant has called on NSW strata managers to update strata rolls in case they are needed to alert apartment block residents about infections…
Forum: Considerate owner has carpet conflict
They say no good turn goes unpunished and one Flatchatter certainly has a dilemma because she wants to do the right thing. On the one hand, in between tenancies she…
Renos make headphones sound like a great idea
If the NSW government isn’t going to protect locked-down apartment residents from renovation noise, then I guess we have to take whatever action we can to give ourselves a break…
Podcast: Defects detected and pets rejected
In this week’s podcast we chat about a report which reveals that one-third of 500 unit blocks inspected in a survey had serious defects, from leaking bathrooms, to fire safety…
JimmyT’s comfort food kitchen: Tandoori salmon
This probably doesn’t qualify as comfort food – or even a lockdown dinner, as it’s perfect for dinner parties – but tandoori salmon is incredibly easy to make and has…
Cupcakes, wine and poems beat lockdown blues
It seems some people are never happier than when they are making other people miserable. Listeners to last week’s Flat Chat Wrap podcast may remember JimmyT hopping into a troll…
Lockdown renos – it’s worse than we thought
The impact on people forced to stay in their apartments while building work goes on around them could be a lot more severe than originally thought. If the apartments undergoing…
Forum: Scooter boost, plant ban and free reno
There are two major movements in strata, regarding electric vehicles. One is related to the population getting older, the other is our belated rush to embrace electric vehicles. Both of…
JimmyT’s comfort food kitchen: mashed potatoes
I’d been wondering how many people have actually read my Comfort Food Kitchen recipes so I checked and was astonished to find out that last week 109 of you went…
Podcast: Pet regs, kid noise, renos and rants
There’s a lot to get through in this week’s podcast, not least the new regulations on pets in strata which replace the now defunct blanket bans on pets. Even so,…
Strata basics – who does what, when and why?
At times like these, when our worlds have been turned upside down and everything seems to be changing around us, it’s often a good idea to recentre, recalibrate and get…