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Podcast: A simple (free) solution to strata strife

  • 25/09/2024
  • Author Jimmy-T

JImmy and Sue chat with Tim Sara of Strata Choice about how the strata management industry is coping with all the recent ructions and how he sees the way ahead…

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    Poll: What do you like most about this strata life?

    • 05/10/2023
    • Author Jimmy-T

    Despite all the doom and gloom, people worried about defects, buildings falling down and the trouble and strife that can come from living in apartments, there are a lot of…

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      Podcast: Minions to the fore in war on Nimbys

      • 05/10/2023
      • Author Jimmy-T

      This week, we open up with a chat about our increasingly popular polls and the surprising results this week revealing what annoys you most about your neighbours. Then we take…

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        Forum: By-law bans indoor e-scooter charging

        • 03/08/2023
        • Author Jimmy-T

        We are nothing if not trendsetting, here on Flat Chat, so it’s no surprise that we have received notice of a proposed by-law banning the charging of electric scooters, ebikes…

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          Forum: Outvoted by other blocks in scheme

          • 19/05/2023
          • Author Jimmy-T

          Strata democracy is an odd beast.  Whether by apathy, ignorance or sheer bloody-mindedness, a majority who don’t care about an issue, can go against the wishes of a minority who…

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            How to turn your scheme into a community

            • 14/03/2022
            • Author Jimmy-T

            Strata schemes bring together all sorts of different people, whether they’re from a range of ages, social and economic backgrounds or ethnic roots. This could be a recipe for conflict…

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              What the pandemic has taught us about ourselves

              • 04/01/2022
              • Author Jimmy-T

              There’s a quirky UK comedy series on TV called Taskmaster, in which five comedians are set a series of bizarre physical and logical challenges, usually with hilarious results. At the…

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                How buddies in the block beat the isolation blues

                • 11/10/2021
                • Author Jimmy-T

                Start talking about a sense of community to some property owners and strata residents and their eyes glaze over faster than an unsuspecting victim during a dinner party pyramid-selling sales…

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                  Why trendy cafes won’t cut the mustard with lower income families

                  • 16/06/2020
                  • Author Jimmy-T

                  Potential apartment purchasers would do well to look at the facilities for lower income families in and around their blocks, and not just the price tags on their on their…

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                    PODCAST: Stratabox and building communities through communication

                    • 25/09/2019
                    • Author Jimmy-T

                    For years I have been struck by the irony of the connection (or lack thereof) between communication and community and how it seems to fall asunder at the doors of…

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                      PODCAST: The buzz on strata – it’s locusts V bees

                      • 17/09/2019
                      • Author Jimmy-T

                      Are you a locust or a bee?  Those are the divisions appearing between residents in Australia as many of us move from the more acquisitive, self-centred lifestyle typified by the…

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                        Flat Chat Wrap #41 – The future of apartments … bees vs locusts

                        • 17/09/2019
                        • Author Jimmy-T

                        We write and talk a lot about property developers in Flat Chat – not often in positive terms – but we rarely get the chance to hear their side of…

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