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After the deluge: when mould takes hold

  • 05/04/2022
  • Author Jimmy-T

With impeccable timing, given the OCN webinar on waterproofing today (Wednesday, April 6), here’s a Sydney Morning Herald Lifestyle section report by Sue Williams about how mould can come into…

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    Greens demand airbnbs to house flood victims

    • 08/03/2022
    • Author Jimmy-T

    NSW Greens are calling on the state government to drag airbnb-style holiday rental properties back into the residential tenancies market to ease a severe housing crisis caused by the catastrophic…

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      Forum: A warning about issuing warnings

      • 14/12/2021
      • Author Jimmy-T

      I have to admit I’m feeling unusually smug this week – but that’s what happens when you get things so precisely right it feels like there was a betting fix…

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        Forum: Under water but over-insured

        • 03/08/2021
        • Author Jimmy-T

        It’s not often that you hear people complaining about being over-insured but, hey, this is strata and anything can happen. In a nutshell, an owner installed a nice new timber…

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          Forum: Reno nightmare owner selling up

          • 20/10/2020
          • Author Jimmy-T

          This week’s lead Forum post is a strata nightmare. It starts when a hobby renovator undertakes a major revamp of his flat, knocking down walls, adding staircases, shifting rooms, ripping…

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            Forum: Cheap insurance leaves owner under water

            • 11/08/2020
            • Author Jimmy-T

            There an annoying piece of nonsense that repeatedly comes up in strata – and nobody ever seems to learn. What happens is that there’s a fault in common property that…

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              PODCAST 59 – Fire and rain, gym hijackers and paying for repairs

              • 12/02/2020
              • Author Jimmy-T

              In this week’s podcast, with the East Coast states of Australia only just having survived the bushfires, we are now dealing with torrential rain and floods. Sue has contacted the…

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                Who pays when upstairs kitchen floods?

                • 14/08/2015
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                Who picks up the bill when a two flats are flooded by a defective dishwasher and neither party is insured? The question was raised by Flatchatter “Powers That Be”, a…

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