Tenants parking badly – blame the landlords?
QUESTION: A tenant in our block has to appear before the CTTT about one of her sub-tenants parking in the visitor spaces; her unit has more car-owning occupants than parking…
Your rights – use them or lose them
We hear lots of stories about over-zealous executive committee members who go too far, but what about EC s that do nothing. One Flat Chat StrataGuru finds himself with an…
Who pays when plants are in the way
QUESTION: The balcony on my (rented) unit needs to be ripped up, re-waterproofed and retiled. There are a lot of very heavy and large pot plants and outdoor furniture on the balcony…
Tenants: ‘You’re not the boss of me’
QUESTION: The Executive Committee wants to communicate with tenants and tell them of “duties” that they should be participating in – like rubbish removal etc. I don’t agree with EC…
Does my perfect pooch need a ticket to reside?
QUESTION: I currently have a small dog in a leased apartment and have had no issues with the real estate, body corporate or any neighbours. I’m wondering what the repercussions…
Building anger over rogue tradies
QUESTION: In my strata plan the EC is using unlicensed tradespeople to carry repairs of more than $20k. When questioned they have a “so what” attitude. They also now claim…
Verbal leases are all talk
A recent survey revealed that nearly 30 percent of renters in Australia don’t have written leases. It seems high and you wonder if it includes tenants who have allowed their…
When your neighbour’s an in-house fire hazard
QUESTION: Our building was on fire again today. The elderly owner concerned has caused fires in the building many times in the past few years. The owner, who needs nursing home…
What’s not to love about strata living?
We tend to get hung up on the problems in strata – it goes with the territory – so it’s great when an antidote to the strata-haters who seem to…
Parking madness as tenant crosses the line
QUESTION: I share an undercover double car space with a tenant. Because he parks his car too far forward I have extreme difficulty getting in and out. I had the…
Weeding out owners who won’t work
Owners Corp money being spent on private property has had Flat Chat readers going round and round the garden, not to mention being led up the garden path. QUESTION: The…
How safe is ‘reasonably’ secure
QUESTION: A lease states that a landlord agrees to provide and maintain locks or other security devices necessary to keep the residential premises reasonably secure. What does this mean? I…