Luna reigns for cats and dogs as top pet names revealed
OK, I have never met a cat or dog called Luna, which apparently is the most popular name for females of both species. As for male pets, it seems we…
From the Forum: is your strata manager way too laid back?
There are some committees and strata managers that are just too laid back for their own – and their owners’ – good. How many warning notices do you send out…
PODCAST: We hit 50 … Airbnb, pet bans and nasty neighbours
Amazingly, this is our 50th Flat Chat Wrap which means we have been doing this – the podcast thing – for almost a year. And yet, the same topics come…
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…
It’s Airbn-BS as families are ‘priced out by red tape’
Even in this crazy, mixed-up, high speed, disrupted world in which we live, some things never change. One of them, sadly, is Airbnb’s determination to tug at our heartstrings by…
The claim game – detecting defects is just the beginning
You’ve just bought into a new apartment block and cracks have started to appear, or the roof leaks when it rains, or the fire safety measures wouldn’t stop a tea…
Flat Chat Wrap 49 – Half-million dollar defamation damage
This week’s podcast features JimmyT and Sue Williams examining the half-million dollar turnaround in a strata defamation case, a discussion about who’s the boss in a strata scheme – the…
PODCAST: Defamation, fake minutes and holiday packing disasters
This week’s Flat Chat Wrap podcast features JimmyT and Sue Williams examining the half-million dollar turnaround in a strata defamation case, a discussion about who’s the boss in a strata…
Flat Chat Wrap 49 – Half-million dollar defamation damage
This week’s podcast features JimmyT and Sue Williams examining the half-million dollar turnaround in a strata defamation case, a discussion about who’s the boss in a strata scheme – the…
From the Forum: Facts and fictions in meeting minutes
Imagine you’ve had your AGM, there were a couple of contentious issues, a by-law here and there, a few raised voices, maybe, but eventually it was all resolved and everyone…
Strata defamation appeal – $400K lost as court flips decision
The ongoing saga of the open letterbox outside a strata scheme, the email war it prompted, the defamation case that followed and the award of $120,000 in damages reached a…
Opal chair reveals his year of dealing with disaster
It’s the kind of bad dream that has strata chairs waking up in a cold sweat; being thrust into the heart of a very public building disaster, with residents thrown…