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One of the more contentious issues in strata, mainly caused by residents having more cars than parking spots or using their garages for storage, games rooms or whatever, then illegally parking in common property. And pity help you if you have an open car park near a railway station …

Please bear in mind that some of these posts are quite old and the laws may have changed. Also the specific references to parking may be somewhere deep inside the post, especially in Forum roundups and Podcasts.

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Parking madness and the race for visitor spaces

  • 23/11/2023
  • Author Jimmy-T

Every so often we conduct semi-serious polls on the Flat Chat website; they’re far from scientific but they do offer some insight into the collective strata mindset. Recently, we asked…

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    In-apartment parking is no pie in the sky

    • 27/07/2023
    • Author Jimmy-T

    Apartments in a luxury block planned for Brisbane’s New Farm river-front will have parking for the owners’ cars right next to their apartments. And that will “propel Brisbane into an…

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      Parking mad: Visitors, intruders and land grabs

      • 18/10/2022
      • Author Jimmy-T

      There’s a common issue that connects many of the misconceptions about strata living in one source of irritation, conflict and abuse. Misuse of visitor parking may seem trivial to many…

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        Forum: Lines drawn in parking space battle

        • 21/06/2022
        • Author Jimmy-T

        It’s a bumper crop of Forum posts this week but I’m drawn to one that reminds me of a friend of mine – a real estate agent – who was…

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          Podcast: Lawyer in the hotseat, Part 1

          • 30/05/2022
          • Author Jimmy-T

          Amid all the discussions on this website about strata law, regulations and by-laws, we spend a lot of time talking about the way things ought to be and the difference…

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            All about EV: State’s new strata charging guide

            • 12/05/2022
            • Author Jimmy-T

            Proponents of electric vehicles are celebrating a huge step forward in the understanding and acceptance of electric vehicle charging in strata buildings after a tickets to a government co-sponsored webinar…

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              Strata secretary’s car torched – dramatic video

              • 10/05/2022
              • Author Jimmy-T

              A video has emerged of two thugs approaching the car belonging to the secretary of a strata scheme in Fairfield, Sydney, before one of them walks away and the car…

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                Forum: When rising damp is no laughing matter

                • 26/04/2022
                • Author Jimmy-T

                One of the funniest shows ever on TV was a British sitcom called Rising Damp. What does it have to do with strata? Well, it was about young and not-so-young…

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                  EV charging: Power games and current resistance

                  • 26/04/2022
                  • Author Jimmy-T

                  Here on the Flat Chat website, the issue of electric vehicle charging has been one of the most-read and most-commented topics we have had of late. Personal stories on the…

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                    Webinar will plug blocks into EV charging facts

                    • 19/04/2022
                    • Author Jimmy-T

                    Can individual owners have electric vehicle (EV) charging in their apartment block parking spots or do they have to wait till the whole building is cabled? Can the owners corporation…

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                      Podcast: EV doc block shock and green backflip

                      • 12/04/2022
                      • Author Jimmy-T

                      It’s another bumper podcast this week with some topics revisited, some from the Forum and others that are fresh out of the Flat Chat hot cross bunfight oven. First up,…

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                        Doctor sells electric car after EV charging blocked

                        • 11/04/2022
                        • Author Jimmy-T

                        Confusion about strata by-laws has resulted in a busy doctor having to sell his electric vehicle (EV) and go back to a gas-guzzling, polluting car when his strata committee refused…

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