Forum: Growing pains for a strata garden
Anti-garden complaint, what happened to the Netstrata inquiry, informing owners about NCAT actions, combining strata loans and special levies.
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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 debts: Who suffers when you can’t pay?
As the financial screws start to tighten on individuals, it’s interesting to see what they are prepared to sacrifice just to stay afloat in the cost of living crunch. For…
Unbalanced: When owners stop paying levies
With inimitable timing SCA (Vic) President Julie McLean has posted about the dangers of letting individual owners’ levy debts pile up. As you’ll see from these posts to the Flat…
Deadline looms for cladding aid program
NSW strata schemes that have flammable cladding on their walls have just over a week left to register for the state government’s Project Remediate program which offers affected buildings interest-free…
‘Free money’ for blocks with budget shortfalls
Strata schemes are being offered what could be, if they choose, “free money” to fill the holes in their budgets created by owners defaulting on their levies. And assistance is…
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…
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…
Strata ‘green renos’ and cladding plans move on
They were overshadowed and somewhat stymied by the pet amendment, but now that has been settled the NSW Government can push ahead with new strata laws that will make it…
Council where Company Title was compulsory
You may find this hard to believe but there was a local council in Sydney which, until a couple of years ago, would not give planning approval for two-unit strata…
Podcast 80 – Shape of strata blocks to come
In this week’s Flat Chat Wrap podcast, in the run-up to the Australian architectural awards, we talk about some of the innovative apartment block designs that made it the short-list.…
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…