Forum: Are no-pets by-laws back by stealth?
Here’s a blast from the past: A Flatchatter is thinking of buying into a strata villa and has discovered it has a “no pets” by-law. “Weren’t they outlawed after the…
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Mascot owners’ plan to walk away is blocked
Owners in the Mascot tower have failed in their efforts to have the collective sale of the block authorised so that they could sell the site to the highest bidder…
Forum: Little leeway offered for levy debts
The discussion on whether or not – and when – you should push to get unpaid levels back has generated a lot of interest and it’s worth catching up with…
ABC levies debts report misses the mark
OPINION There’s a story in the ABC TV’s business report about how an apartment owner who’s had a run of rotten luck has just had everything made worse by her…
Levies debts: Who suffers when you can’t pay?
As the financial screws start to tighten on individuals, it’s interesting to see what they are prepared to sacrifice just to stay afloat in the cost of living crunch. For…
Unbalanced: When owners stop paying levies
With inimitable timing SCA (Vic) President Julie McLean has posted about the dangers of letting individual owners’ levy debts pile up. As you’ll see from these posts to the Flat…
Forum: On the offensive over fixing a fence
We have a real mixed bag of questions and answers this week so we’ll get straight into it. An owner’s dispute with the owners corp over replacement of a shared…
How to avoid paying other strata owners’ bad debts
Recent media reports about levies (or fees) debts and their consequences may have alarmed some apartment owners and puzzled others. A Sun-Herald story earlier this month about the “cruel” owners’…
Podcast: Defects, debts and dream bathrooms
Sometimes we are just too efficient for our own good. No sooner had we sent this week’s podcast off for transcription than the news broke that NSW Building Commissioner David…
Podcast – all you need to know about levy debt
Last week saw the publication of a confected scandal of an elderly couple who’d been given bad advice, blaming their owners corporation for a special levy of $18,000 that had…
‘Cruel levies’ debt story a cheap shot at strata
COMMENT by Jimmy Thomson: The Sun-Herald article this week about the elderly couple who supposedly may be forced to sell their apartment or face bankruptcy could be used as a…
Forum: Deadbeat owner paid no levies for 10 years
Apartment owners not paying their levies is an all-too-common occurrence in strata. But when one owner out of four his dragging the chain, that’s 25 percent of a block’s revenue;…