Podcast: Contracts, advice and rotting blocks
Jimmy and Sue give a qualified welcome to a new strata guide and discuss the criticism of strata management contracts and the claims about rotting blocks in Victoria.
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Podcast: Potential noise annoys Toaster nimbys
Jimmy and Sue catch up with all the strata news, including objections to a 24/7 bar on the Harbour, a push to allow laundry drying on balconies and the loss…
Podcast: Total control, new bloke on the block
JimmyT and Sue send greetings from Scotland, welcome the new building commissioner and predict the next scandal likely to hit the strata sector.
Podcast: Pumping irony and airbnb on defensive
Jimmy and Sue discuss the first-floor resident being driven mad by the thumping and pumping from a pro gym beneath her flat PLUS how Airbnb is responding to a global…
Podcast: Could AI spell the end of Flat Chat?
Jimmy and Sue discuss what happens when you ask an AI chatbot a question about strata. The answers are amazing, amusing and alarming - for very different reasons.
Podcast: A simple (free) solution to strata strife
JImmy and Sue chat with Tim Sara of Strata Choice about how the strata management industry is coping with all the recent ructions and how he sees the way ahead…
Podcast: The other strata trap, post Chandler
We start this week’s podcast by looking back at the previous episode which has broken all our records for regular downloads. It’s not surprising really, given that it was a chat with…
Podcast: Behind the scenes of the Strata Trap
We rolled the Wrap out a little early this week because it’s connected to the hottest topic in strata right now. Linton Besser, the reporter who brought you the Four…
Podcast: Gas appliances linked to kids’ asthma
Are your cooking and heating appliances giving your kids asthma? This week in the Flat Chat Wrap, Sue talks about a story she’s been chasing where families have found that…
Podcast: Conflicts of interest … and opinions
There’s been considerable speculation about NSW Strata Commissioner John Minns this week after the revelation on an ABC news report last week that he has retained a significant holding in…
Podcast: Company title chaos, strata solutions
In this week’s podcast, we look at why a problem in a company title block would have been much easier to resolve had the apartment been in a strata building.…
Podcast: Soft soap won’t clean up strata scandal
So the NSW Fair Trading Minister has revealed his law changes in the wake of the Netstrata scandal and they are, as one strata insider put it, like being slapped on the…