Book launch: Invite to the height of harmony
How do you get on with your neighbours? Here's your chance to score an invitation to the latest book about living in strata.
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Podcast: The other Minns – our strata commish
In this week’s Flat Chat Wrap we welcome freshly minted Strata Commissioner John Minns (not to be confused with NSW Premier Chris Minns) to tell us about his new role,…
Webinars on boundary disputes and sustainability
Our friends and sponsors Bannerman Lawyers have already kicked off their August webinars and you’ll have to be quick off the mark to sign up for the first one on…
Lawyer in the Hot Seat: we get As for your Qs
There can be fewer areas more susceptible to rumour, misinformation and – let’s face it – ignorance, than strata law and by-laws. You know how it goes. Someone has a…
Vic Gov deaf to strata cries for help, says SCA
In her second post to Flat Chat, Julie McLean, President of SCA Victoria (the strata professionals’ body), wonders why the state’s strata owners’ and residents’ desperate cries for help go…
Time Fair Trading and NCAT were sin-binned
It’s been a while since I said this – and it’s something I should put in my diary for every three months or so – but isn’t it time the…
Strata battles: Know when it’s time to stop fighting
Q: What’s the phrase that lawyers love to hear most? A: ‘It’s a matter of principle.’ Yes, even better than ‘you win’, according to that old joke, a battle fought…
Flat Chat Live roundup
The Flat Chat column’s recent seminar, Flat Chat Live, saw somewhere north of 120 people turn up in central Sydney to hear a cavalcade of experts discuss a huge variety of issues…