Forum: Spare keys and emergency access
A reader asks, if you don't leave spare keys with someone, are you obstructing access to your flat in an emergency when you're not there?
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Forum: Are uninsured tradies worth the risk?
This week's hot topic is all about whether it's unwise or even dangerous to hire uninsured tradies to work on common property.
Forum: Strip club poser for strata scheme
What can owners do when the fact that there's a strip club in the block causes insurance premiums to triple?
Forum: Allergies are nothing to be sneezed at
Allergies are easy to dismiss - until you get one. So is it irresponsible to use pesticides in a rental home where someone may be allergic? PLUS the strata…
Forum: Blast from the past takes a toilet break
A Flatchatter looking for an answer to a pressing problem uses our search function and finds a blast from the distant past which is still relevant today.
Forum: Changing our tune over noise complaints
Sometimes we feel like we are being led up the garden path by you lovely people, especially on the Forum. A poster in the past week was worried about neighbours’…
Forum: Rules and regs of the strata game
There’s a question in the Forum this week that touches on a nerve for me – and it’s about rules and regulations for committees. Now there are plenty of those…
Forum: Stalemate keeps fresh faces at bay
Strife in strata is so often a case of an irresistible force meeting an immovable object that it’s hardly worth mentioning – but then someone comes up with a new…
Forum: Levies squeezes and admin fund fiddles
There’s an old saying in strata – the smaller the block, the bigger the problems. When everyone knows each other, any points of conflict can quickly become personal. Add to…
Forum: Hanging out for an answer on abseilers
There’s a really interesting post on the Forum about the first year in a new block’s life, but it has been sitting there for a week with a stack of…
Forum: Strata doesn’t have to be so difficult
Sometimes you just have to wonder why strata owners make life more difficult for themselves, twisting themselves into pretzels to find ways of doing stuff that the law clearly does…
Forum: How SM snaffles frequent flyer points
Casting my eye back over the past two decades of writing about strata, I was reminded of how a simple question on an email led to strata law being changed…