Podcast 54 – Bushfires, unit blocks and stray cats
This week’s podcast is about the bushfires. For a change, apartments are not portrayed in the media as the worst possible way to live in Australia. That’s not to say…
This week’s podcast is about the bushfires. For a change, apartments are not portrayed in the media as the worst possible way to live in Australia. That’s not to say…
Noisy neighbours have been keeping the Flat Chat Forum awake for the past week. In one case it’s a couple who put down a timber floor without permission – yes,…
This week’s podcast is about the bushfires. For a change, apartments are not portrayed in the media as the worst possible way to live in Australia. That’s not to say…
The following was originally posted as a comment to our piece on why investors should get more engaged with the apartment blocks in which they own properties. Our sponsors Strata…
At the risk of appearing to jump on the bushfire bandwagon – it’s pretty hard to ignore. Homes and even lives are being lost. Whole towns are under threat but, it…
We reckon this year in strata is going to be a big one across the nation. Our big campaign this year is going to be about embedded networks – where…
We’re back! Like that never-ending turkey curry or the last few chocolates that nobody likes, there are quite a few left-overs from the festive season for us to get our…
In the early days of Flat Chat, I used to bang on about the “double investors” – the owner occupiers who not only pay their levies, but who actually live…
Is everybody in full party mode for Christmas and New Year? Planning to watch fireworks from your balcony? Allow me to introduce some curmudgeonly caution to your festive frolics. How…
Your strata scheme is in disarray, the strata manager doesn’t know what they’re doing (or doesn’t care … or both). There hasn’t been a committee election for years and nobody…
Last week’s podcast was such a gloomy affair, looking back at a pretty grim 2019, at least in strata terms, that we thought we’d lighten the mood a little by…
There’s much less fun than there ought to be in saying “we told you so” – possibly because it implies that the bad thing we told you was going to…