Forum: New flatmate peeved by pet pee pong
An unusual issue has cropped up this week and it has a surprisingly simple solution … or it would be if finding somewhere to rent in our cities wasn’t so…
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Greens demand airbnbs to house flood victims
NSW Greens are calling on the state government to drag airbnb-style holiday rental properties back into the residential tenancies market to ease a severe housing crisis caused by the catastrophic…
$2000 bonds seen as bid to by-pass pet laws
When health worker Georgia Dawson (not pictured) applied for permission to keep her dog in her apartment, she was stunned to be told her building was considering imposing a bond…
Defects bond? Jail the dodgy developers!
This post, an expanded version of last week’s roundup intro, appeared in this form in the Australian Financial Review. Happy New Year! Two pieces of legislation came into force as…
ROUNDUP: New laws – the good news and the bad
Happy New Year! Two pieces of legislation come into play today. The first sees the long-awaited defects bond for new apartment blocks come into effect. The other sees what seems…
Rental data reveals … not a lot, really
Here at Flat Chat we are all in favour of transparency and freely available information. But we’ re scratching our heads at the latest step in that direction by the…
Delayed defects bond not all it’s cracked up to be
The delayed 2 percent defects bond maybe not such a good idea after all, says Lannock Finance boss Paul Morton The NSW Government’s deferral of the 2 per cent strata defects…
Roundup: When the developer just doesn’t get it
Buying an apartment is possibly the only commercial transaction in our lives where someone sells you something – usually for a lot of money – but thinks they still own it.…