Podcast: Premiums soar thanks to sins of the past
We admit we can get a little city-centric here at Flat Chat so last weekend it was good to get out of the urban jungle and find out what’s happening…
Winter warning – don’t let your furbaby burn
Pet owners know only too well that increased affection from your furbaby is a sure sign that the weather is getting colder. These animals become heat-seeking missiles as Autumn turns…
Reply To: Is it worth claiming for tenant and visitor accidents on Common Property ?
I would make an insurance claim and put all the info you have in. The insurer will quickly tell you if they regard these as insurable events. I doubt it…
Reply To: Is it worth claiming for tenant and visitor accidents on Common Property ?
I would make an insurance claim and put all the info you have in. The insurer will quickly tell you if they regard these as insurable events. I doubt it…
Reply To: Is it worth claiming for tenant and visitor accidents on Common Property ?
Inexpensive legal options could be the strata plan taking out a small debt summons against the offenders and paying a filing fee, currently $105 in NSW which gets added onto…
Is it worth claiming for tenant and visitor accidents on Common Property ?
Hi I am on a strata committee in NSW. We recently have had 2 accidents in our garage in common property caused by tenants and someone visiting a resident. We…
Reply To: Water damage to individual lot, who pays?
Jimmy-T wrote: So please tell us how you fixed it the last time … assuming you did. This time the plumber wasn’t careful while doing his work. As a result,…
Reply To: Water damage to individual lot, who pays?
Domino wrote: Reading this thread, just remembered myself being in the same situation 3 years ago. I also tried to fix the issue with the insurance company but just wasted…
Podcast: Would you roll the dice on a $22m flat?
If you have a hankering for the high life and have a lazy $22 million lying around, you could score an apartment in the huge Crown tower above James Packer’s…
Reply To: Financial incentives for SMs to introduce solar
The way this is dealt with is strata law is complicated but the principles of transparency are quite straight forward. Section 57 of the Act says strata managers may not…
Reply To: Strata Committee paying invoices
TrulEConcerned wrote: …I recall the Tsr/Sec year ago poo-pooing my idea for a resident to spend the 45 mins or so sweeping because he did not want the OC to…
Podcast: Horror of our $700 million defects hole
There’s a horror story, a happy ending and a bit of housekeeping in this week’s podcasts. The horror is the $714 million owed by Home Building Compensation for all the…