Podcast: Lawyer in the Hot Seat, Part One
Here’s a thought to chill the heart of any strata “bush lawyer”; Some strata laws are manadatory and some are regulatory. What that means is that there are laws that…
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Podcast: Flat with its own clink is a hard cell
This week’s Flat Chat Wrap covers a lot of ground. including a prison cell in in a studio flat – seriously! – in the same small town in England where our very…
Podcast: Strata scandal and a can of worms
It feels like the dust has settled a little too quickly on the Netstrata scandal, as exposed by ABC TV. There has been no public statement on it from the state…
Podcast: Family-unfriendly flats by design
Are we building the wrong kind of apartments for families? There’s a very interesting report in the Sydney Morning Herald about a survey that suggests that the cookie-cutter apartment designs…
Podcast: Look back and laugh with our podcom
It’s interesting listening to the podcom Hyperbole Towers – the podcast comedy we recorded almost four years ago – to hear how much has changed.There’s a reference in there to…
Podcast: Strata manager scandal isn’t over
As you’d expect, a lot of this week’s podcast is taken up with the resignation of the SCA-NSW President and Netstrata boss Stephen Brell, as well as the ABC News…
Podcast: Good morning, Vietnam apartments
The Flat Chat Wrap comes to you from a whole other country – or at least half of it does – with Jimmy in Saigon trying to finish his fourth…
Podcast: Why the rental gap is closing fast
There are myriad reasons why apartment rents are getting closer to and even, in a couple of areas, have overtaken the rents demanded for houses.Is it because the immigration tap…
Podcast: Email crazy – how a few clicks cost $17k
We’ve lifted a post from the Flat Chat Forum for the podcast this week to illustrate two issues – one is basic good practise, the other highly contentious. The post…
Podcast: Your strata pet hates (and it’s not pets)
This week on the podcast we are talking about YOU. At least, we are talking about your pet hates, as defined by our highly unscientific and totally skewed poll on…
Podcast: And now the good news… for some
There’s some good news, some bad news and some great news in this week’s Flat Chat Wrap. The good news (for investors) is that apartment prices and rents are going…
Podcast: Unfair contracts plan to beat the BS
This week we take a deep dive into the next swathe of proposed NSW strata reforms which will include attempts to cut through the baloney and BS and make it…