Forum: $90k bonus for wrangling block sale
Forum: Block sale windfall, secretary stymies repairs, water heater locked away, smal block seeks, managers, developer says repairs anr one time only
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Forum: Spare keys and emergency access
A reader asks, if you don't leave spare keys with someone, are you obstructing access to your flat in an emergency when you're not there?
Forum: Oil leak exposes hole in strata know-how
It’s fair to say that most if not all of the problems in strata come down to lack of knowledge (or ignorance, if you want to be brutal). If one…
Forum: Can an unseen screen alter ‘appearance’?
Having spent years trying to answer readers’ questions or, more to the point, allowing Flatchatters to answer each other’s, I have a question for you. I have recently bought an…
Forum: When a disruptive owner Zooms back in
It’s hard to think of a downside for Covid being behind us (if, indeed, it is) but one unanticipated consequence is the end of the need to hold strata meetings…
Forum: ‘Free’ votes give developer total control
We have a few fascinating questions on the Forum this week but the most intriguing one concerns a new, staged development where the developer has managed to hang on to…
Forum: Man with the power who doesn’t want it
This is one of those stories that you remember whenever anyone complains about there being too much bureaucracy around apartment blocks and buildings in general. One Flatchatter in Victoria has…
Forum: When a bully takes over a small block
There’s an easy and often erroneous assumption that’s often made – that living in a small block is more pleasant than life in a large one. Of course, for some…
Airbnb by-law bounced over fob-cancelling clause
A Sydney apartment complex has had its entire “no-airbnb” by-law rescinded after an appeals tribunal confirmed two clauses in the four-page by-law were invalid. The first clause would have allowed…
Trapped in a 50-floor block with no working intercom
It was once Australia’s tallest and most luxurious apartment building, but residents of the Sydney CBD’s Park Regis today live in less-than-splendid isolation. With the access intercom system having been…
Access denied: why emails are a hot strata topic
How would you feel if all the other owners in your apartment block were able to look up your email address on the strata manager’s files? Not keen? Okay, how…
Strata owners wrestle with vax-passes for gyms
Should strata facilities like gyms and swimming pools be restricted to vaccinated residents? Would “vax-passes” for apartment block communal areas be reasonable, especially if state and federal Governments ever introduce…