Forum: My balcony veggie planter’s been banned
Forum: Balcony veggie planter banned, $900k balcony repairs, townhouse driveway deemed lot property, fines for strata managers, bathroom ventilation.
pets
Podcast: Pets unleashed, flat finding for a friend
Podcast: Tenants' pets unleashed - the plusses and minuses of landlords no longer being able to say no to pets while Sue goes flat-hunting for a friend.
Podcast: Five years on, pets are here to stay
Podcast: Five years on from the Jo Cooper case pets are here to stay PLUS, how a ban on rent bidding is helping tenants and a kitchen sink drama.
In-built pet care is the latest apartment lure
There was a time when pets were banned from apartment buildings - now luring pet-owners with fur-baby facilities is big business.
Podcast: Bank rate hogwash, strata dog wash
A new trend in affordable co-living, the narrowing gap between house and apartment prices, why economists deal with pie in the sky, and dog washing bays in unit blocks.
NSW boosts tenants advice by $1m a year
The NSW government has added an additional $1m a year in funding for tenants' advice bodies, just in time for a raft of new laws to take effect.
Pets and fee-free rents in tenancy law reforms
The NSW government is to introduce a suite of measures to make life better for tenants, who comprise more than half of the residents of strata in the state, including…
IMHO: Why pets are props in property shots
Hot on the heels of our comments that PR companies are using less-than-authoritative surveys to fabricate news stories to promote their clients’ wares comes information about a “new trend” where…
Nailing the big problem with too many by-laws
Over 25 years ago our regular guest columnist Francesco Andreone enthusiastically promoted by-laws as the best way to customise strata building operations. However, he now thinks the proliferation of strata…
Forum: Are no-pets by-laws back by stealth?
Here’s a blast from the past: A Flatchatter is thinking of buying into a strata villa and has discovered it has a “no pets” by-law. “Weren’t they outlawed after the…
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…
Podcast: Your strata pet hates (and it’s not pets)
This week on the podcast we are talking about YOU. At least, we are talking about your pet hates, as defined by our highly unscientific and totally skewed poll on…