Roundup: Cladding and parking top your responses
Our invitation in our last newsletter for you to suggest new topics for us to write about brought a few suggestions. That’s not to say that there’s a shortage of…
Party on! It’s time to forget your differences
If you aren’t over Christmas already, maybe you should think about having a Christmas party for your block. Although the combination of alcohol and people with long-held grievances may be…
The Wrap podcast: Parking, popular pet names, and Airbnb
We’re back in Australia this week, with a story about a conflict that couldn’t be more Aussie. Sue Williams takes us through her yarn about people who bought parking spots…
Podcast 5 – parking, pet names & Airbnb hosting
A decades-long parking battle ends up in the Appeals Court, trendy pet names, how to be a better Airbnb host, garage doors and more … all in our Flat Chat…
Roundup: Your strata questions take the cake again
There’s so much going on in the website this week that having a Roundup at all seems like icing on a very big cake … or is it over-egging the…
Proper Charlies: guess the top names for cats and dogs
It’s been a good year for pets in Australian apartments. NCAT has started bouncing unfair anti-pet by-laws in NSW and tenants with pets can’t be unreasonably refused in Victoria, if…
How to be a better Airbnb host … no … really!
Regular readers of this column (thank you both) will know that I am not the biggest fan of Airbnb, nor they of me. Let’s just put that down to my…
Resident owners’ report slams holiday letting laws
The peak body representing apartment owners in NSW has blasted the incoming short-term holiday letting laws as “excessively generous” to holiday letting hosts and a threat to the very nature…
Will cook and clean … for a room in your home
Take people who don’t have enough time on their hands to do basic domestic duties … but own one of seven million spare rooms believed to be lurking in Australian…
The Wrap podcast: From homeless to renting, USA-style
This week’s Wrap podcast topics could hardly be more different. In one we discuss what you can do when a homeless person takes shelter in a nook of common property.…
Flat Chat Wrap #4 – Homeless on common property & build-to-rent in the USA
Homeless people sleeping in common property and – a world away – what it’s like to live in a ‘build-to-rent’ apartment in the USA. The Flat Chat Wrap takes an…
Roundup: Rent bond rollover is a tonic for tenants
The big news this week is … innkeepers will no longer be responsible for their guests horses and saddlery. Seriously, some government reforms and removals of outdated laws have taken…