Forum: Strip club poser for strata scheme
What can owners do when the fact that there's a strip club in the block causes insurance premiums to triple?
Podcast: Pumping irony and airbnb on defensive
Jimmy and Sue discuss the first-floor resident being driven mad by the thumping and pumping from a pro gym beneath her flat PLUS how Airbnb is responding to a global…
Forum: Allergies are nothing to be sneezed at
Allergies are easy to dismiss - until you get one. So is it irresponsible to use pesticides in a rental home where someone may be allergic? PLUS the strata…
Podcast: Off-plan buyers rage and SMs slap back
In this week's podcast Jimmy and Sue discuss whether there is a viable solution to the Sapphire schemozzle in Gosford. And do strata managers have a point about unfair treatment…
Sapphire: Shattered dreams or a bullet dodged?
Work has halted on the near-complete Sapphire development, leaving initial investors frustrated and angry as they decide whether their shattered dreams are really a bullet that they've dodged.
Time to finally end the disruptive low levies lurk
Developers can still emply a low levies lurk, setting fees at unfeasibly low rates to attract buyers, then sit back and watch as they rise to meet real needs and…
IMHO: Afternoons sound like fun with JV again
JimmyT is back with a semi-regular slot on James Valentine's Afternoons show on ABC radio 702 - and he's loving the smarter questions from strata stalwarts.
Are we about to be rendered redundant by AI?
It started as a bit of fun - ask Artificial Intelligence a question about strata. Turns out some of these platforms are a lot smarter than you might imagine.
Strata Groundhog Days: Wince, rinse and repeat
Why do we treat every regular occurrence in strata as if it were a brand new challenge? Francesco Andreone of GoStrata suggests we develop systems to make the regular…
Podcast: Could AI spell the end of Flat Chat?
Jimmy and Sue discuss what happens when you ask an AI chatbot a question about strata. The answers are amazing, amusing and alarming - for very different reasons.
SCA-NSW to get lessons in professional ethics
The Professional Standards Authority is to engage with Strata Community Association (SCA-NSW) to ensure it is complying with its own code of ethics.
Forum: Blast from the past takes a toilet break
A Flatchatter looking for an answer to a pressing problem uses our search function and finds a blast from the distant past which is still relevant today.