Forum: Do food deliveries offer milk boxes new life?
Here’s a blast from the past – or is it just case of waiting long enough and a fashion will come round again? Anyone who has lived in or visited…
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Forum: Tree growing in neglected flat floor
In these days of housing shortages, it seems almost criminal that an apartment owner would allow a unit to lie empty, literally falling apart, then fight tooth and nail to…
Forum: Noisy neighbours but no-one’s listening
It’s the stuff of strata nightmares. The apartment upstairs is owned by an overseas investor who probably doesn’t know what’s going on. It’s been sub-let by a landlord who has…
Forum: Do I have to pay to fix separate block’s roof?
A question has been raised in the Forum this week which I suspect will become more common as more mixed high-rise and townhouse developments come on stream. And there’s also…
Forum: Is it easy to split our strata scheme?
Back in the bad old days of strata, developers would stack unit entitlements on to average-sized apartments, and steer them away from commercial units, like shops, and penthouses. Unit entitlements…
New app to handle heavy lifting in levy calculation
Imagine taking an online tool like a mortgage calculator – one of those apps on a lot of banks’ websites that tell you that you can’t afford to buy the…
Forum: consternation over late nomination
Sometimes in life, the secret of success is a question of good timing. Strata living is no exception and this week our Flatchatters have been watching the clock or, at…
App offers fast answers to levies shortfall question
Strata schemes facing a temporary financial crisis due to the coronavirus – or just anxious to get on with delayed projects – can now get an instant answer on whether…
Levies shortfall plan where everyone’s a winner
There is a lot of genuine angst around about the payment of levies or, more to the point, the inability to pay them. Just to be clear, there are no…
From the Forum: Can we say no to noisy renos during lockdown?
If you think being forced to work from home – or even just being stuck indoors with no work to go to – is bad enough, imagine how it feels…
Podcast 68: Six months of Sundays, classic movies, perfect pods
In this week’s Flat Chat Wrap. Jimmy and Sue look at the wealth of good advice about how to get through this crisis without the whole system falling around our…
Unintended consequences of late levies – lost jobs and voting rights
There’s a lot of chat at the moment about the pressure on people to pay levies when they might have lost their job or their income has been reduced. I…