Are we about to be rendered redundant by AI?
It started as a bit of fun - ask Artificial Intelligence a question about strata. Turns out some of these platforms are a lot smarter than you might imagine.
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Forum: Blast from the past takes a toilet break
A Flatchatter looking for an answer to a pressing problem uses our search function and finds a blast from the distant past which is still relevant today.
Forum: Changing our tune over noise complaints
Sometimes we feel like we are being led up the garden path by you lovely people, especially on the Forum. A poster in the past week was worried about neighbours’…
Forum: Rules and regs of the strata game
There’s a question in the Forum this week that touches on a nerve for me – and it’s about rules and regulations for committees. Now there are plenty of those…
Forum: Who’s watching the CCTV watchers
There are all sorts of good reasons for having cameras mounted on common property in apartment blocks. Being able to see who’s coming and going at your front door would…
Podcast: Gas appliances linked to kids’ asthma
Are your cooking and heating appliances giving your kids asthma? This week in the Flat Chat Wrap, Sue talks about a story she’s been chasing where families have found that…
Forum: Stalemate keeps fresh faces at bay
Strife in strata is so often a case of an irresistible force meeting an immovable object that it’s hardly worth mentioning – but then someone comes up with a new…
Forum: Hanging out for an answer on abseilers
There’s a really interesting post on the Forum about the first year in a new block’s life, but it has been sitting there for a week with a stack of…
Forum: Strata doesn’t have to be so difficult
Sometimes you just have to wonder why strata owners make life more difficult for themselves, twisting themselves into pretzels to find ways of doing stuff that the law clearly does…
It’s Hug Your Strata Manager Day… if it’s OK
As I wrote on last week’s newsletter, a lot of people are sick of us bagging strata managers on this website. Okay, a lot of strata managers, specifically, are tired…
Forum: Back-to-school daze for Qs and As
A strange thing happens on Flat Chat around this time of year. Actually, it’s not that strange – it’s related to school holidays, and makes perfect sense. I’m guessing our…
Forum: How SM snaffles frequent flyer points
Casting my eye back over the past two decades of writing about strata, I was reminded of how a simple question on an email led to strata law being changed…