Apartment residents across Australia are angry that their buildings could be turned into high-risk viral hot-spots, with Airbnb hosts offering self-isolation packages to returned overseas travellers. Community leaders claim that…
There’s an email flying around at the moment claiming to contain advice from a Sydney hospital to its staff. It bears a lot of similarities to another (literally and figuratively)…
When it comes to public speaking, are you a Nervous Nelly or the kind of orator who won’t stop talking until the microphone has been prised from your cold dead…
We should have seen it coming. Opportunist Airbnb hosts are jumping in on the coronavirus quarantine restrictions by offering special “self-isolation” packages – including in apartment blocks. The packages include…
It’s kind of ironic that in the very week when we are highlighting the new residential rental laws, we receive a strange post from a tenant whose landlord refuses to…
In this week’s Podcast, Jimmy and Sue examine the plusses and minuses in the new NSW rental laws, which tilt things in tenants’ favour but don’t go all the way.…
They say it’s an ill wind that blows nobody any good and the coronavirus gale that’s blasting though our holiday industry will be a breath of fresh air to one…
An unfamiliar sight has appeared in the foyers and on the concierge desks of apartment blocks across Australia – hand sanitiser bottles. And that’s a good thing, because, while there’s…
New laws for residential tenancies are about to come into force in NSW, with their general thrust being to make like better for renters. Given that more than half the…
How reliable against coronavirus are the health checks at our hotels and airports? Do they even exist? Sue Williams, our redoubtable Flat Chat roving reporter, has just returned from India…
JimmyT and Sue discuss his long chat with the building commissioner, what you can do to avoid coronavirus in your apartment block and how Sue learned about the great Australian…
Six months into the task of rebuilding confidence for purchasers of new residential apartments in NSW, state Building Commissioner David Chandler claims the game is already changing. Mr Chandler, speaking…