Don’t be alarmed – there’s a burnt toast by-law
Fire alarms can go off for all sorts of reasons that have nothing to do with fire. It could be smoke from seriously burnt toast meeting an over sensitive alarm,…
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Show essential services shonks the exit door
With all the various horror stories of what goes wrong when an apartment catches fire, you would never want to skimp on safety. But what if you were paying over…
Podcast: Comedy, coffee and a new way of renting
Were going flat out to lift the gloom in this week in the Flat Chat Wrap. First we go behind the scenes of the much heralded and long-awaited (by JimmyT,…
Forum: Locked down next to a 10-week renovation
There’s a fine array of quirks, quibbles and questionable grey areas in this weeks Forum Roundup, although the Flatchatters asking the questions might be feeling more abused than amused. Firstly,…
Hyperbole Towers – an audio strata sitcom
It’s here! The long-awaited podcom (podcast sitcom) set in a dysfunctional apartment block’s strata committee is live and ready for your ears. The premise of this audio comedy, Hyperbole Towers,…
Parliament pet petition off to a flying start online
More than 1300 pet lovers have signed up to a petition demanding that blanket bans on pets in strata be revoked, after only two days of it being online on…
Owners win battle over Biowood cladding
Apartment owners battling to have combustible cladding replaced on their buildings have won a landmark legal victory – giving hope to the thousands more facing similar dangers, writes Sue Williams.…
Forum: Cheap insurance leaves owner under water
There an annoying piece of nonsense that repeatedly comes up in strata – and nobody ever seems to learn. What happens is that there’s a fault in common property that…
Podcast: Defect deterrent and travelling wistfully
We cover a lot of ground in this week’s podcast … and by “a lot of ground” we mean pretty much the whole planet. First, we take a look a…
Sneaky decisions made under cover of covid
As the covid-19 pandemic has driven us all back into our homes, the Internet has become a vital tool both in working from home and managing our strata schemes. In…
High price of safety – services rip-off alleged
Legendary movie director Alfred Hitchcock is reputed to have said: “I never said actors were cattle, I said they should be treated like cattle.’ Sometimes you get the feeling that…
Forum: Are these rules for Covid-19 or Airbnb?
Just after we locked off the Forum Roundup last week, we received a post listing a litany of unfair restrictions the poster claimed had been snuck in under cover of…