Forum: Who exits when one owner has an AVO?
Here’s a tricky one for all you legal eaglets, a chance to scratch your Rumpole itch. An owner successfully applies for an Apprehended Personal Violence Order against a committee member.…
Lock Up & Leave – FNQ, Provence, Tahiti, China
Welcome to the second instalment of Lock Up And Leave, the reason for which – as in, what travel features are doing on a website about apartments – is explained…
Podcast: The other Minns – our strata commish
In this week’s Flat Chat Wrap we welcome freshly minted Strata Commissioner John Minns (not to be confused with NSW Premier Chris Minns) to tell us about his new role,…
Sign up for water-proofing and WH&S webinars
Bannerman Lawyers are addressing two major strata problems with their November webinars. First in line this month that irksome issue when your bathroom or kitchen springs a leak and everyone…
Is your block’s disaster planning a … disaster?
Would you know what to do if there was a 72-hour power outage in your apartment building? What about the people who simply can’t climb up and down multiple flights…
Gold star claims – hearing is believing
They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but then they also say that flattery will get you nowhere. It seems Building Commissioner David Chandlers ICIRT star ratings are…
Lock up and leave – the whole holiday deal
We are branching out a little here at Flat Chat. Encouraged and maybe inspired by the fact that a lot of you like being able to lock up and leave…
Forum: Tenant running day-care in her garage
Here’s one for the ages. We have all heard how hard it is to get childcare places and how expensive they are when you get them. So what does the…
Podcast – Greenie grass of affordable homes
We’re heading across the border to Victoria this week where the Greens are flexing their balance-of-power muscle by demanding changes to the state housing program, as detailed in this post on the…
Heading for a showdown with strata shonks
At the first AGM of a new apartment block, owners are expected to approve all sorts of contracts – but what if they are being misinformed, misled and ripped off?…
Vic Greens flex muscle for curbs on Airbnb and rents
The Victorian Greens have put demands for curbs on short-term holiday lets like Airbnb at the heart of their push for reform of the state’s housing policy. And they are…
Forum: Can you force a nasty neighbour to sell?
Somewhere back in the dim and distant past of Flat Chat we may have advised someone that if an owner refused to obey their scheme’s by-laws, they could be forced…