Defame game – when it’s okay to criticise
With all the various defamation trials we’ve seen recently, it’s only natural that anyone who’s going to criticise anyone for anything might be a little concerned. And before I type…
Podcast: Company title chaos, strata solutions
In this week’s podcast, we look at why a problem in a company title block would have been much easier to resolve had the apartment been in a strata building.…
Do you have this professional on your side?
Here in strata, your building will hire a lot of people to help look after its and your interests. There’s probably a strata manager, there may be a building facilities…
Forum: Hanging out for an answer on abseilers
There’s a really interesting post on the Forum about the first year in a new block’s life, but it has been sitting there for a week with a stack of…
Sustainability the rage at OCN conference
It’s that time of year again, when strata experts drag themselves away from their research projects and academic papers to pass on their wisdom at seminars and workshops. The next…
My alter ego’s shameless appeal for your votes
This has absolutely nothing to do with strata, unless you count the fact that it was written in a flat in Kings Cross and the hero lives in a pad…
Podcast: Soft soap won’t clean up strata scandal
So the NSW Fair Trading Minister has revealed his law changes in the wake of the Netstrata scandal and they are, as one strata insider put it, like being slapped on the…
Big strata wins again as new laws tread softly
It seems one person’s regulation is another’s backdoor legitimacy, if the reaction to this week’s anticipated “crackdown” on strata managers by NSW Fair Trading is anything to go by. Minister…
Forum: Strata doesn’t have to be so difficult
Sometimes you just have to wonder why strata owners make life more difficult for themselves, twisting themselves into pretzels to find ways of doing stuff that the law clearly does…
State to crackdown on cheap ebike batteries
The NSW government plans to crack down on poor quality, cheap or faulty lithium-ion batteries, a move that will come as some relief to strata committees and residents across the…
Podcast: Future bright but present tense
Having been to more conferences that they’ve had Ubereats deliveries – and with drawers full of lanyards to prove it – Jimmy and Sue headed off to the Gold Coast…
Big and bright ideas meet huge strata challenges
By Jimmy Thomson and Sue Williams Black mould built into new homes, fire safety measures ignored and undermined, real estate marketers (rather than town planners) shaping our cities – these…