Forum: No fire checks without smokescreens
Should the same firms that do fire checks be paid to fix the faults they discover? Plus blending levies and loans to pay for major works - all that and…
levies
New laws: compulsory training for committees
New laws tabled this week will force strata committee members to undergo training, levies in new blocks will have to be realistic and embedded network scams could see sales cancelled.
Time to finally end the disruptive low levies lurk
Developers can still emply a low levies lurk, setting fees at unfeasibly low rates to attract buyers, then sit back and watch as they rise to meet real needs and…
Forum: Levies squeezes and admin fund fiddles
There’s an old saying in strata – the smaller the block, the bigger the problems. When everyone knows each other, any points of conflict can quickly become personal. Add to…
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…
Podcast: Tax fixer-uppers and strata spies
The tax office is targetting double-dipping landlords who claim all sorts of things they shouldn’t, or just claim for stuff the wrong way.For instance, property investors routinely claim levies as a tax…
Forum: SM using my own votes against me
There’s nothing that quite matches the feeling of frustration and helplessness when the professionals that you count on to do the right thing are doing the opposite. It doesn’t have…
Forum: Rare posts that tell the whole story
I’s a relatively rare pleasure on the Flat Chat forum to get the full story on a dispute, from initial complaint though to resolution. Often, but not always, Flatchatters will…
Mascot owners’ plan to walk away is blocked
Owners in the Mascot tower have failed in their efforts to have the collective sale of the block authorised so that they could sell the site to the highest bidder…
Forum: Little leeway offered for levy debts
The discussion on whether or not – and when – you should push to get unpaid levels back has generated a lot of interest and it’s worth catching up with…
Forum: Would you let serious levies debts slide?
It’s been a quiet week on the Forum – at least as far as new topics go; something to do with the blue moon, I guess. So while there’s a…
ABC levies debts report misses the mark
OPINION There’s a story in the ABC TV’s business report about how an apartment owner who’s had a run of rotten luck has just had everything made worse by her…