committee – FLAT CHAT

Forum: Ghosted by our sulking strata manager

Forum: When your scheme is ghosted by the SM. Can you renovate in flat pack unit blocks? Fire safety upgrades are nothing to be scared of.

RANT: Failure to fix and the flowchart of fury

RANT: When your strata committee says "no" because they don't know, or they don't want to know, you have to tell them to go with the flow.

Forum: Who pays to fix lot owners’ balconies?

Forum: Who pays to fix lot owners' balconies, proxy presentation in Vic, vegepod debate sprouts support and a simple fix for unfair SM contracts.

‘Strata Trap’ manager first to be banned for life

The strata manager who featured in the ABCTV Four Cornners Strata Trap episode was last week banned permanently and his company had its licence cancelled.

Forum: My balcony veggie planter’s been banned

Forum: Balcony veggie planter banned, $900k balcony repairs, townhouse driveway deemed lot property, fines for strata managers, bathroom ventilation.

Secrets of strata living … it’s all in the game

How can we prepare future generations for their lives in flats and townhouses, asks a leading strata manager. The answer may be in game play.

Strata committee training survey a lesson for all

A survey into strata committee training - compulsory in NSW from later this year - is a lesson to all concerned about what owners want and need.

Forum: How they put porn on our block’s TVs

Forum: Neighbours spying on neighbours, developers loading strata committees, landlords charging for lightbulb, who's reponsible for tree lopping?

Defect reports rising… but so is confidence

Defect reporting is rising, but this could be a good thing if it means owners' confidence in getting fixes is increasing even more.

Forum: Our bidet eyes on a bathroom reno

Forum: Tenant wants a bidet, new manager and old debt, effect of abstentions, committe refuses to claim, and strata manager contract challenge.

Forum: When a sticky-beak is a spying mission

Forum: When a sticky beak is spying, permission to add a storey, strata committee ignoring tribunal orders and how a tied vote passed an AGM resolution.