Reply To: Strata managers accused of $240m insurance rort
Hi Jimmy-T, Not surprising at all. Tragic is the fact that SCA is not willing to take any action. We have spoken to owners in may complexes and almost none…
Reply To: Can an owner take the Strata Manager to NCAT for failure to perform duties?
FACT: No NSW strata manager has ever lost their licence just for being really, really bad at their job. No SCA member has ever been bumped from that self-serving organisation…
Reply To: OC back-dating insurance charges on studio
Hi, I’m with Jimmy. Your post is extremely confusing and unclear. As Jimmy recommends: use bullet point, focus on the key issue and re-post the problem. I don’t know where to…
Reply To: OC back-dating insurance charges on studio
Thank you for your reply. It has been used as a occasional flat when a relative staying over but generally just used as a separate living space, akin to a…
Reply To: SC and Manager Budgeting skills
Hi Sydney1501, I was inspired by your post to ask a panel of committee members their experience and thought I would share some of their practices: They start the budgeting…
OC won’t fix serious defects (VIC)
Hello, A great forum, with a good exchange of information. Perhaps I can be pointed in the right direction. A ground floor unit has water ingress during rains. An engineer’s report…
Reply To: OC back-dating insurance charges on studio
Just to clarify, what kind of stuios is this – a flat or an art studio. And on what legal basis is the OC demanding insurance premiums retrospectively? Sounds to…
Forum: Mending fences creates division – twice
We have never been known for sitting on the fence here at Flatchat but we have two fence issues in the Forum this week. In one, the builder of a…
All you ever needed to know about renos
There are so many different sources for information about what you can and can’t do in your apartment or strata scheme I thought I might post this compilation of renovation…
Reply To: Strata manager myth made ‘fact’ in SMH
Hi Jimmy Thanks for article and I had made the same point to the journalist who wrote that article. In addition to your previously made points about SCA proporting to…
Reply To: Which insurance should we choose?
From memory, damage to stove could be covered by landlord insurance but not maintenance or replacement due to old age. The original stove may have been OC responsibility, but not…
Reply To: NSW plans crackdown on ‘Airbnb’ rentals
There are many problems with Airbnb, that unsurprisingly several are missed by the regulators and politicians in general. Two come to mind as chronically missed opportunities: 1. Say you’re a…