Forum: Who pays for gate crasher’s damage?
There are some issues that bring out the bush lawyer in all of us. Take the sub-tenant who accidentally drove into his block’s garage gate, doing $4000 worth of damage.…
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When elderly are a danger to themselves and others
My elderly mother is currently being assessed in a nursing home to see if she can look after herself or needs more hands-on help. She is in one of the…
Flat Chat writer publishes her first full-length novel
Regular readers of this website and, especially, listeners to our podcast, will probably recognise the name Sue Williams. Sue co-hosts our podcasts and is a prolific writer on property (among…
Finding homes for strata’s invisible 25 per cent
Who do you think lives in apartments in our big cities? Are most other apartment dwellers just like you or are you somehow different from the mob? Based on a…
Forum: Should cleaner have to deal with dog poo?
Our first post in this week’s roundup illustrates precisely why I would never live in an apartment block that didn’t have CCTV at least covering the front door and foyer.…
Survey aims to challenge suspect Qld strata laws
Before the state elections in Queensland last year, the state’s Deputy Premier Steven Miles invited the Unit Owners Association of Queensland (UOAQ) Committee to contribute to a legislation review regarding…
Are online and pre-votes the new proxy farming?
As NSW apartment residents think about what changes they would like to see in strata law, and some of us dive into the deep dark waters of the online consultation…
Dogs that love to swim and dry drowning dangers
The chances are that dogs are not allowed in your communal apartment block swimming pool, and they certainly wouldn’t be welcomed by some of your neighbours. But that doesn’t mean…
Forum: Unfinancialized by a sneaky strata manager
One of the suggestions that I made in my overly lengthy submission to the strata law consultations was that seriously incompetent strata managers should face serious penalties, including potentially being…
Podcast: Which apartment tribe do you belong to?
Do you know what your strata-living tribe is? Are you economically engaged, young and jobless or under-employed, battlers, established owners, downsizers or even public housing tenants? Professor Bill Randolph of…
Law change survey leads to our strata manifesto
This week, I slipped down the ultimate strata rabbit hole – NSW Fair Trading’s consultation questionnaire in which they invite us to tell them how we think strata laws could…
Council where Company Title was compulsory
You may find this hard to believe but there was a local council in Sydney which, until a couple of years ago, would not give planning approval for two-unit strata…