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Forum: Law breakers want to sue over complaints

  • 09/08/2022
  • Author Jimmy-T

Our “star forum post” this week (for want of a better term) concerns a resident of a mixed use block where the proprietors of the commercial units all come from…

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    Tenants can take OCs to NCAT over defects

    • 09/08/2022
    • Author Jimmy-T

    Tenants have the legal right to take their owners corporations to a NSW Tribunal to force them to fix faults in common property, an NCAT Appeals panel has ruled, but…

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      Podcast: Petinos, pets and petty squabbles

      • 02/08/2022
      • Author Jimmy-T

      There we were, all set with a podcast on David Chandler’s resignation in the can, when we heard that NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet had invited Fair Trading Minister Eleni Petinos…

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        Refusal to allow second Frenchie challenged

        • 01/08/2022
        • Author Jimmy-T

        Does gaining permission for one dog in a strata scheme mean you should automatically be allowed a second pooch?  And does a by-law allowing permission to keep “an animal” mean…

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          When hiring a good strata lawyer is a great idea

          • 20/05/2022
          • Author Jimmy-T

          In this week’s Australian Financial Review I wrote about the value of good strata lawyers and the problems with bad ones. This was prompted by a chat with Amanda Farmer…

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            Forum: Angry tradie targets new unit owner

            • 17/05/2022
            • Author Jimmy-T

            Here’s a conundrum from way out of left field, and then some.  One of our Flatchatters has just received a final demand, and a threat of legal action, from a…

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              Losers pay: Special levies mandatory for NCAT cases

              • 12/04/2022
              • Author Jimmy-T

              Listen up all you litigious committee members! We have discovered something via the Flat Chat Forum that should make every strata committee in NSW think long and hard before they…

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                Tribunal rescinds pre-sold management contract

                • 22/03/2022
                • Author Jimmy-T

                For the first time in NSW state history, a tribunal has rescinded a strata building management contract, pre-sold by the developer, finding it to be harsh, oppressive and unconscionable, writes…

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                  OCN issues revised Airbnb by-law after NCAT ruling

                  • 28/02/2022
                  • Author Jimmy-T

                  As we reported last week, when the owner of two properties in a Sydney Olympic Park complex challenged their identical by-laws restricting short-term holiday lets, an NCAT member had found…

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                    Forum: Cashed-up and confused by costs levy

                    • 11/01/2022
                    • Author Jimmy-T

                    Here’s a bit of a brainteaser.  An owners corp has won its tribunal case against a couple of lot owners over unapproved renovations. The OC’s strata manager has now asked…

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                      NCAT delays force family back into mouldy unit

                      • 14/12/2021
                      • Author Jimmy-T

                      Unexplained delays by the NSW government’s property tribunal have forced a mother, her five-year-old daughter and her elderly parents to move back into their damp, mouldy apartment. Sarah Wu’s family…

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                        Heartbreak over Angus, the pet-ban busting dog

                        • 05/10/2021
                        • Author Jimmy-T

                        Angus, the pet-ban busting dog, has died.  Singer Jo Cooper, who challenged her owners’ corporation’s “no pets” by-laws all the way to the NSW Court of Appeal – and won…

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