Forum: Parking madness and untraceable tenants
Apologies for leading off on parking issues two weeks in a row but this one is such a doozy that it has even made it to our podcast. The problems…
Strata Parking
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.
Podcast 81 – Negative equity & positive plans
In this week’s Flat Chat Wrap podcast we encounter the best and worst in apartment living, from negative equity in off-the plan purchases, to multiple tenants causing parking chaos in…
Forum: Can we turn extra space into more parking?
Among the perennial Flat Chat Forum issues, parking is right up there with pets, parties and parquet flooring. And among all the parking questions, the most common are probably queries…
Forum: At wits’ end with nasty neighbour campaign
There’s a smorgasbord of strata strife in this week’s forum but the story that stands out for me is the tenant who’s being targeted by a couple of owners who…
Police death crash accused was ‘neighbour from Hell’
The Porche driver who taunted a dying policewoman after a roadside multi-fatality crash may be the ultimate apartment neighbour from Hell, according to a story in the Age and Sydney…
Forum: Sub-committees subterfuge and secrets
Imagine, you are sitting in on a strata committee meeting, unable to speak, and the chair gets to an agenda item that says something vague like “Parking Sub-committee”. The chair…
Key to unwelcome ‘guests’ and overcrowded flats is at your fingertips
It started with a complaint from an exasperated reader who declared himself sick of all the negative Airbnb and holiday letting stories we run on Flat Chat. But it’s not…
From the Forum: Why a balcony garden reminds us of a penthouse mountain
There’s a question on the Forum this week that has brought back memories of a story from a few years ago when a man in China decided to build a…
From the Forum: Tenant turns around vote and stops renovations
So you’ve been through the tortuous system for getting approval of your planned renovations, and you have all the votes you need. But then the tenant of an adjoining flat…
From the Forum: Sole committee member seeks support
No one else in a small block was interested in volunteering, so a new owner ended up as a strata committee of one. Now more than half the other owners…
Podcast 61 – Electric cars and rogue parking with James Valentine
Roughly once a month JimmyT drops into the ABC radio studios for a chat with James Valentine about strata and all the myriad related subjects This month they start off…
‘Forced sale’ laws breathe new life into old blocks
Last year’s slump in apartment sales may have saved some of Sydney’s older apartment blocks from demolition and replacement by something shiny and new … and apartment owners are looking…