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Podcast: The many sins of commission at Fair Trading

  • 09/08/2022
  • Author Jimmy-T

If there is one area of NSW Liberal politics that may be glad that the kerfuffle over the appointment of a trade envoy to New York is drawing so much…

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    Tenants can take OCs to NCAT over defects

    • 09/08/2022
    • Author Jimmy-T

    Tenants have the legal right to take their owners corporations to a NSW Tribunal to force them to fix faults in common property, an NCAT Appeals panel has ruled, but…

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      Podcast: Defects, debts and dream bathrooms

      • 26/07/2022
      • Author Jimmy-T

      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…

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        Podcasts: Your top ten pods of the year

        • 16/06/2022
        • Author Jimmy-T

        It’s all very well to be gallivanting around the Scottish Highlands, hiking from B&B to B&B (traditional ones, not Airbnbs) but it’s not exactly conducive to recording a podcast. We…

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          Focus on defects and disasters, pocket $100

          • 03/05/2022
          • Author Jimmy-T

          Want to add to academics’ collective knowledge about living in strata and all the  … um .. challenges it presents, and score a couple of $50 vouchers for doing so?…

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            Podcast: Strata’s next big challenge – ageing blocks

            • 23/02/2022
            • Author Jimmy-T

            This week’s podcast is given over to one topic – but it’s a fascinating one: What are we going to do about Australia’s older apartment blocks? Sure, there’s been a…

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              High cost of choosing pros who tell porkies

              • 01/02/2022
              • Author Jimmy-T

              We are conditioned to trust professionals, especially when they tell us what we want to hear. But what happens when they betray that trust and it costs us money, time,…

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                Podcast: Airbnb curbs and the intercom of doom

                • 11/01/2022
                • Author Jimmy-T

                Like a wayward teenager who stayed out too late, Airbnb is creeping back into our lives, hoping to avoid our parental wrath, but finding a less than loving reception waiting…

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                  Forum: Fight the builder or turn an blind eye?

                  • 22/12/2021
                  • Author Jimmy-T

                  There’s a doubly time-sensitive issue in one of our forum questions this week. An owner’s corp has forced their builder to fix some waterproofing issues but in testing the repairs,…

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                    Govt. promises major strata fire safety revamp

                    • 14/12/2021
                    • Author Jimmy-T

                    There is a lot of confusion and anger in Strataland about fire safety, including who gets to choose what’s safe and what isn’t, and how a building that has passed…

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                      NCAT delays force family back into mouldy unit

                      • 14/12/2021
                      • Author Jimmy-T

                      Unexplained delays by the NSW government’s property tribunal have forced a mother, her five-year-old daughter and her elderly parents to move back into their damp, mouldy apartment. Sarah Wu’s family…

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                        Sea-change block blitz as commissioner heads north

                        • 20/11/2021
                        • Author Jimmy-T

                        Sea-changing apartment buyers tempted out of Sydney by the charms of NSW’s north coast – or driven out by fears of future lockdowns – may feel slightly more secure this…

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