Reasons to be cheerful
In this column’s relentless campaign to act as both problem solver and trouble-maker, it’s sometimes easy to lose sight of why we live in apartments in the first place. The…
Send in the clowns
NB: There’s anothere reader’s horror story at the end of this column. eedback has been flooding in since we took a pop at the Consumer, Trader and Tenancy Tribunal a…
A little help from our friends
Here are some links I use fairly often for various reasons … If any of these are broken or don’t exist any more, please let us know on ma**@**********om.au/ Owners Corporation…
C Triple T Twits
(NB: There are several readers letters at the end of this article) It seems a great pity that, when the Office of Fair Trading doing its best to provide a…
Pay back for strata slackers
(SEE UPDATE AT END OF COLUMN) There should be a special word for the selfish few who sponge off their neighbours by not paying their levies until the bailiffs come…
Another fine mesh
Here at Flatchat Mansions, we’re sure that if you counted up the number of times different subjects were raised, parking would be numero uno. We’re not going check those figures…
Safety first on OHS fees
It’s a grey area of strata living – is a strata plan a collection of homes or effectively a business? And if it is a business, do we have to…
Blowin’ in the wind
Never let the facts get in the way of a good story. The report a few weeks ago in another newspaper that you could go to jail for drying your…
Intelligent life of Planet Strata?
There really should be some kind of test for people who want to be owners or tenants in a strata development. Just hook them up to a lie detector machine…
Does new law target the last little old lady standing?
The recent panic over the impending law changes that will allow “designated authorities” to compulsorily buy bits of backyards and sell them on to developers, may have missed the point.…
OFT untangles web
The new broom sweeping through the Office of Fair Trading has not only brushed up strata law but has scrubbed up its website too. If you can find it –…
WILD CATS AND FERAL OWNERS
Many buildings have restrictions on residents owning pets and keeping them in their apartments – but what if the pet-lovers neither own nor keep them? QUESTION: Eight feral cats hang…