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How owners and media keep a lid on problems

  • 28/03/2023
  • Author Jimmy-T

Our media has a strange relationship with strata issues. It’s often a passive conspiracy of silence between journalists and owners, in which secrecy, confusion, erroneous assumptions and wilful ignorance either…

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    Covid confusion as strata mask orders remain

    • 15/10/2021
    • Author Jimmy-T

    Building managers are taking down signs requiring residents to wear masks, strata committees are telling tenants and owners that masks aren’t required on common property and everybody in strata land…

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      Covid confusion over who can go to work in strata

      • 19/07/2021
      • Author Jimmy-T

      It’s been another weekend of covid confusion in strata with, on the plus side, a pretty nifty toolkit for building managers and committees being issued. However, that was followed by…

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        Fair Trading fluffs again – is air-con sustainable?

        • 09/02/2021
        • Author Jimmy-T

        Our revelation last week that NSW Fair Trading has no idea what double glazing is, even though they specify it in their renovations regulations as being a permitted “minor renovation”,…

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          Roundup: Confusion as flawed laws revealed

          • 08/05/2018
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          Another week, and the steady trickle of confusion in our daily strata lives is gradually turning into a flood of frustration. Just skimming this website would be enough to give…

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