Cat poo too yucky – even for parking thieves?
How far can you go when a stranger parks in your parking space? Actually, there’s two questions – what should you do and what can you do, legally? One recent…
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.
Quiz: Parking madness
Parking – along with pets and parties – is one of the perennial three P problems in strata. In this entertaining, interactive quiz, Jimmy Thomson of Flat Chat tests your…
Abandoned car or parking madness?
When is an car abandoned? When it’s left in a unit block tenant’s space, its number plates removed? OK, but what if it is covered with a tarpaulin? The tenant…
Parking thieves face $550 fines … but so do bad parkers
Opportunist ‘parking thieves’ who grab unit block parking spots while they shop or commute to work could face fines of $550 when local council parking officers are allowed to patrol…
Parking clickers a tricky issue
QUESTION: “I live in a big building of 300-plus apartments, and the owner of each car space is issued with a clicker for the car park to let them in…
Parking cops for strata blocks
Parking cops for strata blocks Concerns over illegal parking in strata schemes near railway stations and office developments – and the possibility of apartment and townhouse owners taking the law…
Parking thieves: some strategies
Illegal parking by outsiders in strata blocks is a perennial problem. While strata residents – owners and tenants – can be fined or, according to some lawyers, clamped or towed…
Tenant locked out of parking garage
A Sydney tenant is not allowed to let her friends park in visitors parking because, it seems, she’s only a renter. Inner City Walker wrote to Flat Chat complaining that…
Confusion reigns in scramble parking
Should parking be less of a scramble for owners than tenants? A Flat Chat reader has written to us about his unit block where he parks his car in an…
Time to tow parking twits
As this is the 400th Flat Chat column (whoo-hoo!) I’ve been thinking about the topics that come up consistently and wondering if we are anywhere closer to an answer than…
Tenants parking badly – blame the landlords?
QUESTION: A tenant in our block has to appear before the CTTT about one of her sub-tenants parking in the visitor spaces; her unit has more car-owning occupants than parking…
Parking madness as tenant crosses the line
QUESTION: I share an undercover double car space with a tenant. Because he parks his car too far forward I have extreme difficulty getting in and out. I had the…