Podcast: Secretive strata managers face fines
$110,000 fines for recalcitrant strata managers, new affordable homes for essential workers, better designs for low-rise blocks and the rights and wrongs of a land grab.
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Netstrata wants some report findings scrapped
Insiders have told the ABC that Netstrata has submitted a 70-page document countering some of the findings in the draft report into its "Strata Trap" allegations.
New laws passed to crack down on rogue SMs
New laws designed to crack down on strata managers receiving secret kickbacks while introducing higher penalties for agents doing the wrong thing, have passed the NSW parliament, the government announced…
Forum: Kickbacks and con jobs in conveyancing
You have to think that if some of the service providers in strata-land spent as much time and energy just doing their jobs as they do trying to diddle us…
Sacked SM given total power over new scheme
COMMENT: With the announcement of the appointment of Rentals Commissioner Trina Jones, we await the anointing of the proposed new Strata Commissioner, whoever that might be. And the recipient of…
Owners battle illegal lets and crippling contracts
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…