Your chance to ask or answer questions about strata – or just read about other people’s issues.
Welcome to the Flat Chat Forum where your questions can be answered by me (JimmyT), one of our Stratagurus, industry experts or other readers who’ve had similar issues. Anyone can read all the material but you have to register (just once) and log in (each session) to ask or answer questions. NB: When you register, please do not use your real name or email address as your screen name. Identifying yourself also identifies anyone you are complaining about and that could lead to legal problems.
Ready to post a question? Choose the sub-forum closest to your area of interest from the list below, click on its title then click on the words “Create New Topic” near the top of the window. Just want to read and respond? You’ll find our latest posts on the right, below our sponsors’ ads.
Forum posts are displayed with the original question at the top then the responses in chronological order with the most recent response at the end. That means to follow the entire thread to the conclusion of a particulalrly long discussion you may even have to click on to a later page.
One last thing – please don’t double-dip. By that we mean asking the same question or continuing the same discussion in a new thread. If you haven’t received a reply to your post, just click on “reply” and give our readers a nudge. If you start a new topic with the same question, both will probably be deleted.
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Common Property
Who owns what and what can you do
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- Reply To: Committee plans to ban EV Charging 24 minutes ago
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From the Front Page
Comment on our stories and posts
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- Reply To: Podcast: Faster and cheaper flat pack flats 44 minutes ago
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The Professionals
Strata managers, lawyers, building managers etc
- 687
- Reply To: Strata Manager stuffs up then stops responding 47 minutes ago
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Hard floors and tough decisions
Stamping out the stomps and clomps
- 82
- Reply To: Elephant living upstairs 48 minutes ago
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Rental rants
Tenants and landlords have their say
- 361
- Reply To: Is a landlord’s Certificate of Compliance really necessary? 11 hours, 14 minutes ago
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Living in strata
Odds and ends from daily strata living
- 1,243
- Reply To: Charged for work in secretary’s unit 1 week, 1 day ago
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NCAT – the NSW Tribunal
The body that decides what's right and who's wrong
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- Reply To: What are NCAT Points of Claim? 1 week, 2 days ago
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Strata Committees
Kind hearts and control freaks
- 1,067
- Reply To: Vic Owners Denied Access to Committee Meetings 1 month, 2 weeks ago
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By-laws and outlaws
Rules, regulations ... and rebels
- 379
- Reply To: So far strata have fined me $4680! 1 week, 5 days ago
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Finance, budgeting and loans
Follow the money!
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- How double dipping on posts slows responses 2 weeks, 4 days ago
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Talkin’ ’bout a renovation
Blame TV's the Block for reno rage
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- Reply To: Carpet replacement refused for silica dust 2 weeks, 6 days ago
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Pets: Furry friends … or fiends?
Animals in apartments and all that entails
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- Reply To: Buying an AC or Refrigerator – What Really Matters? 3 weeks ago
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Buying and Selling
The biggest deal most of us will ever do
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Levies and Unit Entitlements
What you pay and why you pay it
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- Reply To: Can we split special levy and strata loan payments? 1 month ago
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New to strata – or just strata-curious
Welcome to the wonderful world of strata living
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- Reply To: Committee not responding to repairs request 1 month, 1 week ago
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New-build defects
Ask your question here if you are not sure whether your new-build defects are major or minor.
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- Reply To: What Responsibilities Does The Developer Have To Remedy Faults? 2 months, 1 week ago
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How to use this forum
A simple guide to getting your message across. Please IGNORE the "start new topic" button. Please do not post or ask questions in this section - find one closest to your topic or you risk all your hard work and urgent questions being automatically binned.
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- Can we remove old threads and posts? 2 months, 2 weeks ago
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Proxies – blind faith or good sense?
Ruling the roost with a fistful of votes
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- Reply To: Proxy farming shares out excess votes to keep control 5 months, 1 week ago
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Parking Peeves
The perpetual pain of rogue parkers
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Two-unit strata
Duplexes and villas - a problem shared is a problem doubled
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- Reply To: Unfair Unit Entitlements 6 months, 2 weeks ago
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Smoke gets in your eyes
... from neighbours' units, balconies and common property
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- (QLD) What to do when people smoking on balconies OR inside enters my unit? 7 months, 1 week ago
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Company Title
And you thought strata law was complicated ...
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- Reply To: Company Title and conversion to an Owners Corporation Victoria 8 months, 2 weeks ago
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Community Title
Community, Precinct and Neighbourhood Associations
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- Reply To: Neighbor installed a kitchen vent directly pointing to my window and main door 9 months, 1 week ago
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Airbnb and holiday lets
When holiday rentals are no fun for residents
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- Reply To: Insurance premiums raised due to Airbnbs 11 months, 1 week ago
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Neighbour noise
Are your neighbours too noisy ... or too nosy?
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- Reply To: Sound recording devices for fighting noise allegations 1 year, 6 months ago
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Collective sales – the 75 percent solution
How 75 percent of strata owners in NSW can compel the others to sell
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- Reply To: Strata manager pushing us to sell to developer 1 year, 6 months ago
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Is it really easy being green?
Greening your block to save money ... and the planet
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- Reply To: Can unit blocks get support for installing solar power? 2 years, 2 months ago
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Dirty Linen
Drying laundry on balconies - the debate heats up
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- Reply To: Hung out to dry over laundry 2 years, 9 months ago
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Why I love apartment living
It's not all doom and gloom and apartment living can be great when you get it right. Can't it? Say something positive right here.
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- Reply To: No worries, mate 5 years, 11 months ago
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