Podcast: Lawyer in the hot seat, part two
This week we bring you the second part of strata lawyer David Bannerman’s Q&A session, with Flat Chat’s JimmyT asking the questions sent by Flat Chat readers and Bannerman Lawyers’…
This week we bring you the second part of strata lawyer David Bannerman’s Q&A session, with Flat Chat’s JimmyT asking the questions sent by Flat Chat readers and Bannerman Lawyers’…
Is the wall between my bathroom and lounge room common property? What about my ceiling? Or my floating timber floor? The questions of what is or isn’t common property and…
Strata is full of people offering advice and opinions based on nothing more than something they heard from someone who might not even live in an apartment … or even…
Welcome to the second part of Lawyer In The Hot Seat, in which strata lawyer (and Flat Chat sponsor) David Bannerman invited us on to his webinar. This week, Jimmy…
Recently, there have been a number of questions about fire safety inspections and measures on the Flat Chat Forum. Last week, one of our Flatchatters, an accredited Fire Safety Practitioner,…
It’s that time of year again when we are coming to the end of the school holidays and Australia Day is upon us. On top of all that, we are…
In these days when conspiracy theories can almost lead to the overthrow of the “greatest democracy in the world” we have to be careful not to fuel the fires of…
Our first post in this week’s roundup illustrates precisely why I would never live in an apartment block that didn’t have CCTV at least covering the front door and foyer.…
There’s an intriguing conundrum in the Forum this week. An owner in a small walk-up block wants to install a stairlift – one of those chairs that takes older or…
There an annoying piece of nonsense that repeatedly comes up in strata – and nobody ever seems to learn. What happens is that there’s a fault in common property that…
There’s a smorgasbord of strata strife in this week’s forum but the story that stands out for me is the tenant who’s being targeted by a couple of owners who…
Imagine, you are sitting in on a strata committee meeting, unable to speak, and the chair gets to an agenda item that says something vague like “Parking Sub-committee”. The chair…