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Forum: Who’s watching the CCTV watchers
There are all sorts of good reasons for having cameras mounted on common property in apartment blocks. Being able to see who’s coming and going at your front door would…
Forum: When the wrong thing is the right choice
There’s a post in the Forum this week which perfectly encapsulates the quandary that often comes up in strata between doing the right thing and just getting things done. In…
Forum: Strata Manager hiding behind ‘privacy’
Just when we were starting to get worried about posts to the Forum tailing off, there has been a virtual tsunami and questions and complaints, but the one that jumps…
Forum: Zombie post poses very live question
This week we want to feature what can only be described as a “zombie post” – first sent in 2016 – but no less relevant for that, as a reply…
Forum Poll: Who annoys you most in strata?
Pssst. Don’t tell anyone, but I think we’ve fixed strata. I say this because after a bumper couple of weeks with a stack of new questions, we haven’t had one…
Forum: Chill out over ‘crazy’ air-con ban
With temperatures going through the roof every other day and humidity reaching saturation – at least, when we’re not in the middle of a downpour – there’s a very timely…
Reverse cycle air-con can be sustainable, after all
Last week, I asked how air-conditioning could be considered a “sustainable” renovation (as promoted by Fair Trading in their somewhat premature notes on minor renovations). Well, blow me down with…
Air-con: hot topic demands cool heads
A strata scheme not a million miles from where I sit is facing a very modern quandary – how do they deal with global warming when it gets real but…