What will your dog do when you return to work?
With many Australians hopefully heading back into the office in the near future, your pets are going to have to make a major adjustment too. And what you don’t want…
Strata pets
There was a time in strata blocks when “no pets” was the default rule for apartment residents.
When the model by-laws in various states changed to allow residents to apply for permission to keep pets, which could not be unreasonably refused, “we have never allowed pets” was considered to be a reasonabe reason for refusal.
But times have changed and that is no longer the case, as you will read in these posts.
NB: Some of the stories in these pages go a long way back – check the dates as the laws may have changed. Also references to pets may be part of a larger story.
Podcast 69 – fostering pets, falling rents, failing tradies and TV flats
This week’s Flat Chat Wrap has just about everything; pets, tradies, TV shows set in apartments and, of course, Airbnb – plenty to keep your spirits up through the Lockdown.…
Foster or adopt – a pet could end your isolation
As we are all still being advised to stay at home if we can, there is only so much TV you can watch on your own, and so many cute…
Podcast 66 – Locked down and loaded up with medical misinformation
In this week’s Flat Chat Wrap, Jimmy and Sue discuss Australia’s coronavirus lockdown and what it means to people living in apartments. There’s the whole issue of returned travellers settling…
From the Forum: Mystery of the missing rent money
It’s kind of ironic that in the very week when we are highlighting the new residential rental laws, we receive a strange post from a tenant whose landlord refuses to…
Pets under threat from coronavirus overkill
With the debate about companion animals in apartments always bubbling just below the level of hysteria, the current outbreak of COVID-19 (Coronavirus) has many pet owners fearful that it could…
PODCAST 58 – Dogs in pools and nutty neighbours
This week’s podcast topics have come straight off our front page and our Forum. For instance, how would you feel if an owner started allowing – maybe even encouraging –…
The strange case of the dog in the pool
The war between pet lovers and pet haters in Australia’s strata schemes has a new battleground – the communal swimming pool. Actually, as a Flatchatter has written to tell us,…
‘Fun police’ jibe as $1100 fines threatened over noisy kids
A story about a strata management company threatening residents in an apartment building with $1100 fines if playing children make too much noise is bouncing around the internet. The story made…
PODCAST 55 – Privacy poppycock, powers of attorney and pets in peril
This week in the podcast we revisit the vexed question of whether or not you should be allowed to view other owners’ email addresses. The SCA (Strata Community Australia –…
Popular apartment pets at risk from smoke and heat
Some of the most popular dog breeds for apartment residents are the most susceptible to breathing problems from the smoke that’s been blanketing our cities. Vets in smoke-affected areas are…
Flat Chat Wrap 50 – AirbnBS blitz, pet bans balked, bad neighours
Amazingly, this is our 50th Flat Chat wrap which means we have been doing this for almost a year. And yet, the same topics come up, time after time, albeit…