Forum: The shocking cost of saying ‘no’
I’ve long been an advocate of a policy of “if in doubt, do nothing” but it seems there are situations in strata – especially in small schemes – where not…
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Forum: Tenant running day-care in her garage
Here’s one for the ages. We have all heard how hard it is to get childcare places and how expensive they are when you get them. So what does the…
Forum: ‘Not our problem’ by-law has huge flaw
Here’s a neat trick by a strata committee determined that owners should not take responsibility for anything in the building – potentially saving themselves a lot of dough. They have…
Forum: Crack in wall exposes gaps in the law
Sometimes I think the policy wonks who devise the rules by which we are supposed to run our strata lives deliberately throw in little quirks and nuances just to make…
Forum: Parking vigilante is breaking the law
Let’s be honest, if you’ve ever found someone else’s car in your parking spot, you’ll have been tempted just to park in behind it and leave it there, ignoring pleas…
Forum: Who pays for gate crasher’s damage?
There are some issues that bring out the bush lawyer in all of us. Take the sub-tenant who accidentally drove into his block’s garage gate, doing $4000 worth of damage.…
Knotted no more – but are by-law fines enough?
Finally, I get it. Yes, there is no longer a financial penalty for ignoring an NCAT order relating to a by-law breach. However, that doesn’t mean that repeat offenders are free…
Key to curbing remote control freak
This originally appeared in Domain in the SMH and Financial Review. To read comments, click HERE. In strata more than anywhere else, it seems, there are certain kinds of people…