Forum: Growing pains for a strata garden
Anti-garden complaint, what happened to the Netstrata inquiry, informing owners about NCAT actions, combining strata loans and special levies.
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Forum: From the really unreal world of strata
Buying into strata for the first time is a daunting prospect – and that’s even for people who have some idea what to expect. As for newcomers, including those new…
How to fix the deep flaws in strata management
The exposure of dubious (but not necessarily illegal) tactics by strata management giant Netstrata has pulled an unwelcome but totally necessary focus on how strata managers operate in NSW and,…
Statutory SM appointed but owners kept control
This is an extended Forum post from Flatchatter Stu who explains how his scheme got rid of an incompetent and borderline corrupt strata manager and replaced him with a statutory…
Poll: What would it take to get you to an AGM?
Are you an AGM tragic – turning up for every general meeting like a strata stalker- or would you have to be sedated and abducted by your strata committee to…
Poll: What would you cut in your strata budget?
If you had to make cuts in your strata spending, where would the axe fall first? Budgetting is crucially important today with the cost of living going up and inflation…
Aurora shambles exposes deep flaws in Vic strata
An owners’ revolt at a 1000-unit apartment building in Melbourne has highlighted the crippling inadequacies of Victoria’s strata laws and tribunal system. And it illustrates how a built-in lack of…
Forum: The drinking person’s guide to AGMs
Last time we let the Forum sit for a week to see if we could accumulate any more questions – and boy, do we now have a couple of doozies.…
Pitfalls and perils at a new block’s initial AGM
The initial AGM of a new building is an exciting, confusing and challenging event, especially for first-time owners. But the more things you get right there, the easier life will…
Make the most of your AGM (and other meetings)
Considering that the AGM is the one time of the year when owners get direct contact with their strata committees, their organisation can sometimes be a little haphazard, to say…
From the Forum: Facts and fictions in meeting minutes
Imagine you’ve had your AGM, there were a couple of contentious issues, a by-law here and there, a few raised voices, maybe, but eventually it was all resolved and everyone…
Embedded networks – the latest scam coming to a block near you
If crumbling buildings in Sydney and towering infernos in Melbourne are doing nothing else, they are drawing attention away from a sneaky scam that could cost new strata owners a…