Podcast: Pets & renters, prices and owner revolts
This week’s podcast has placed a ban on the C-word … no, not that one, the other one that’s filling our news bulletins on radio and TV and clogging up…
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Tenants and pets – how to get a home with yours
In these times of enforced isolation, pets have never been more valuable for their comfort and companionship. But there is still resistance among many landlords – and strata schemes, for…
How to pet-proof your investment property
Most people love pets but, when it comes to allowing them into your investment property, that enthusiasm can wane, writes Sue Williams in Prestige Domain. A pet-friendly rental home, however,…
Forum: How to see off the car space invaders
An oldie but a goodie turned up this week, and it’s all about that perennial favourite … “parking”. A young adult who has been moving between parents has decided to…
Forum: “Can’t hear you” on pets just won’t work
There’s an unwritten rule in strata that committees are always less smart than they think they are. You can file that alongside “strata law is never just common sense” and…
Your pet laws and by-laws, state by state
Recent re-interpretations and rulings on pet by-laws in NSW, not to mention much-needed updating of the basic strata laws behind them, have left a lot of pet owners scratching their…
Podcast: Dogs banned but NCAT says OK to cats
There’s a few differences in this week’s podcast from previous editions. For a start, Sue is on the other end of a Zoom call as she takes advantage of easing…
More pet turmoil as NCAT backs no-dogs by-law
The endless pets-in-apartments saga took another twist last week when a tribunal ruled that a no-dogs by-law was acceptable, even though last year the NSW Court of Appeal decreed that a…
Forum: Seeking speaking permission & rising damp
There’s a genuine “Catch-22” hidden in one of our questions this week. How can you ask to speak at a strata committee meeting when you aren’t allowed to speak? The…
Podcast: Pets (again!) with James Valentine
Every so often – about once a month – I get invited on to James Valentine’s Afternoons on ABC 702. Last week the topic was pets in apartments – partly…
Survey deadline extended to define ‘unreasonable’
The search for the definition of “unreasonable” has prompted NSW Fair Trading, aka the department of Better Regulation, to extend the deadline for public responses to its review of strata…
Pet-friendly housing helps everyone, says report
A new report backed by six Australian universities has concluded that having pets is good for both tenants and landlords. However, even though more than 60 per cent of Australian…