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Owners battle illegal lets and crippling contracts

  • 23/07/2022
  • Author Jimmy-T

Queensland apartment owners are ramping up their battles to regain control over their homes on two fronts. One aspect is the fundamentally immoral (but entirely legal) practise of developers selling…

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    ATO cracking down on dodgy holiday let claims

    • 18/07/2022
    • Author Jimmy-T

    Danger, danger, holiday letting hosts! If you have been fudging the figures on your tax claims for your holiday home investments, the Australian Tax Office is coming after you. Actually,…

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      Holiday lets: A national solution to state crises

      • 04/07/2022
      • Author Jimmy-T

      As international travel opens up again, and we await the next tourism boom, it’s residential renters who will pay the price of uncaring “sharing” when ever more rentals are turned…

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        Strata residents dodge holiday let by-law bans

        • 08/02/2022
        • Author Jimmy-T

        UPDATED: Feb 10. With Australia’s borders about to open to overseas tourists, there is considerable confusion over who can and can’t let their flats as holiday lets in strata blocks…

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          Trafalgar loses another battle in dog fight

          • 06/02/2022
          • Author Jimmy-T

          A controversial mixed-use holiday rental and residential building has lost another battle in its continuing, long-running war against pets in the building. Thanks to a Queensland Body Corporate Commission tribunal…

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            Airbnb is back … but the new registry will bite

            • 21/10/2021
            • Author Jimmy-T

            Would-be Airbnb hosts hoping to cash in on the opening up of regional travel on November 1 and even the eventual arrival of overseas visitors could be be in for…

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              Messy message as final ‘airbnb’ code delayed

              • 12/04/2021
              • Author Jimmy-T

              Late last week, when NSW Planning finally released the new regulations on short-term holiday letting – aka STRA, aka “airbnb” – there was something to annoy everyone. The proposals would…

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                Rents drop as Airbnb flats return to residential lets

                • 29/11/2020
                • Author Jimmy-T

                The pandemic hasn’t quite killed off short-term holiday letting but it’s certainly applied a hefty brake – at least as far as our cities are concerned. The return to the…

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                  Podcast 98: A tale of two very different rentals

                  • 03/11/2020
                  • Author Jimmy-T

                  We are looking at two very different kinds of rentals this week.  The first is build-to-rent apartments (which is definitely NOT affordable housing, regardless of what anyone else might tell…

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                    It’s Airbn-BS as families are ‘priced out by red tape’

                    • 26/11/2019
                    • Author Jimmy-T

                    Even in this crazy, mixed-up, high speed, disrupted world in which we live, some things never change. One of them, sadly, is Airbnb’s determination to tug at our heartstrings by…

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                      PODCAST: Defamation, fake minutes and holiday packing disasters

                      • 19/11/2019
                      • Author Jimmy-T

                      This week’s Flat Chat Wrap podcast features JimmyT and Sue Williams examining the half-million dollar turnaround in a strata defamation case, a discussion about who’s the boss in a strata…

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                        The worst from the world of holiday letting

                        • 30/05/2019
                        • Author Jimmy-T

                        There`s been a lot going on in the world of short-term holiday letting, with local news like out-of-control parties and and a global backlash in world cities that are being…

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