Should strata facilities like gyms and swimming pools be restricted to vaccinated residents? Would “vax-passes” for apartment block communal areas be reasonable, especially if state and federal Governments ever introduce…
The NSW Government is preparing for a blitz on apartment blocks with new rules for residents of and visitors to units in the event that even a single home in…
I bought a lot of stuff on the internet during the last Sydney lockdown (didn’t we all?) but two of the smartest purchases were a tortilla keeper and taco holder…
The NSW Government has announced an increase to the Residential Tenancy Support Package to up to $4,500 per tenancy and an extension to the eviction moratorium until 11 November 2021,…
A letter from Chief Medical Officer Kerry Chant has called on NSW strata managers to update strata rolls in case they are needed to alert apartment block residents about infections…
They say no good turn goes unpunished and one Flatchatter certainly has a dilemma because she wants to do the right thing. On the one hand, in between tenancies she…
If the NSW government isn’t going to protect locked-down apartment residents from renovation noise, then I guess we have to take whatever action we can to give ourselves a break…
In this week’s podcast we chat about a report which reveals that one-third of 500 unit blocks inspected in a survey had serious defects, from leaking bathrooms, to fire safety…
This probably doesn’t qualify as comfort food – or even a lockdown dinner, as it’s perfect for dinner parties – but tandoori salmon is incredibly easy to make and has…
It seems some people are never happier than when they are making other people miserable. Listeners to last week’s Flat Chat Wrap podcast may remember JimmyT hopping into a troll…
The impact on people forced to stay in their apartments while building work goes on around them could be a lot more severe than originally thought. If the apartments undergoing…
There are two major movements in strata, regarding electric vehicles. One is related to the population getting older, the other is our belated rush to embrace electric vehicles. Both of…