Forum: Leaks reveal holes in tribunal process
There’s an old saying that “justice delayed is justice denied”, and nowhere is that more true than in strata. Take the case that’s just landed on our desk concerning a…
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Forum: Why we don’t really love letters
A frankly annoying post from a new correspondent prompted a whole column in this week’s website. To be fair, it was mostly irritating because it reminded me that some weeks…
Forum: Strata pros who won’t talk to owners
Things tend to be a little quiet around holiday weekends but one discussion caught the eye this week and it concerns a solicitor telling committee members that they will only…
Forum: Owner’s workers parking in visitor spots
A question that goes back to March this year has been revived, obviously because it hasn’t been resolved. Basically it involves an owner of a commercial property in a strata…
Forum: Reno costs rocket thanks to new regs
There’s a growing rumble of discontent among strata owners who want to do the right thing but find it comes at a substantial price – sometimes doubling or trebling the…
Forum: Rookie reno error and terrible tenants
We have an all-too familiar tale from Victoria (yay!) this week where an owner has decided to take out a load-bearing wall in his flat, in a small, older apartment…
Forum: Noisy floors and illicit land grabs
There are a couple of hardy perennials in our Forum garden this week; complaints that are so commonplace – both in their spread and how often they come up –…
Forum: Insurers will only pay for half of fence
Another week, another weird question – at least, it’s a question about weird behaviour by strata owners. Here’s the scenario. A car goes out of control and smashes the fence…
Forum: One block vetoes majority motion
There’s a storm brewing at a multi-block community scheme where the committee is at odds with its secretary, the secretary sends a proxy to meetings and the strata manager seems…
Forum: Man with the power who doesn’t want it
This is one of those stories that you remember whenever anyone complains about there being too much bureaucracy around apartment blocks and buildings in general. One Flatchatter in Victoria has…
Podcast: Are we heading back to the bad old days?
We are in a state of shock here at Flat Chat, wondering if, when David Chandler and Victor Dominello both go, and with dodgy developers already circling the bleeding carcass…
Forum: Law breakers want to sue over complaints
Our “star forum post” this week (for want of a better term) concerns a resident of a mixed use block where the proprietors of the commercial units all come from…