Access denied: why emails are a hot strata topic
How would you feel if all the other owners in your apartment block were able to look up your email address on the strata manager’s files? Not keen? Okay, how…
Podcast: Now you can read it as well as listen
This week’s podcast is all about wheel-clamping, email privacy and the amazing legacy of the Sydney Olympics athletes’ village. But one of the biggest pieces of news this week is…
Your email address and the myth of privacy
Imagine you’ve noticed a proposal in your strata scheme to spend too much money on the wrong project or with a contractor you’ve heard overcharges and is unreliable. Strata committee…
Danger from dodgy health advice posts
There’s an email flying around at the moment claiming to contain advice from a Sydney hospital to its staff. It bears a lot of similarities to another (literally and figuratively)…
Flat Chat Wrap #26 – From Russia with love and the $120k insulting email
Jimmy Thomson and Sue Williams discuss apartment living in the new Russia and the email exchange that cost a Manly tenant $120,000 in a defamation case.
Strata email defamation leads to $120k damages
There’s a lesson for anyone who’s ever tempted to fire off an angry, sarcastic or frustrated email to their strata committee – a defamation case over emails has cost one…
Strata strife: The not-so gentle art of complaining
If you live in an apartment, sooner or later you are going to want to complain. Whether it’s about the noise from next door, or the smoke from the barbie…
Dear idiot: How to manage angry emails
When is a determined owner an email pest? Or, to put it another way, how do you tell the difference between someone with a legitimate complaint, who won’t let it…