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Forum: Why we don’t really love letters

  • 11/10/2022
  • Author Jimmy-T

A frankly annoying post from a new correspondent prompted a whole column in this week’s website. To be fair, it was mostly irritating because it reminded me that some weeks…

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    Here’s cheers to the best of the worst of your posts

    • 08/12/2020
    • Author Jimmy-T

    Following on from our “best of the worst” podcast last week, and as we emerge from our Covid-enforced hibernations, here at Flat Chat we’ve been looking back at a busy…

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      Forum: Sub-committees subterfuge and secrets

      • 26/05/2020
      • Author Jimmy-T

      Imagine, you are sitting in on a strata committee meeting, unable to speak, and the chair gets to an agenda item that says something vague like “Parking Sub-committee”. The chair…

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        Danger from dodgy health advice posts

        • 21/03/2020
        • Author Jimmy-T

        There’s an email flying around at the moment claiming to contain advice from a Sydney hospital to its staff. It bears a lot of similarities to another (literally and figuratively)…

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          Roundup: A quick health check on the Forum

          • 26/02/2019
          • Author Jimmy-T

          Does your pulse race at the thought of someone stealing your parking space?  Are you having sleepless nights, worrying about the flat next door going on Airbnb?  Have you developed…

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            Roundup – Return of the Zombie Forum topics

            • 23/01/2019
            • Author Stratalyzer

            Jeez, there are some people who just shouldn’t be living in strata, aren’t there? As I said last week, it’s one of quirks of this website that we occasionally have…

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              Roundup: Your strata questions take the cake again

              • 28/11/2018
              • Author Stratalyzer

              There’s so much going on in the website this week that having a Roundup at all seems like icing on a very big cake … or is it over-egging the…

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                Roundup: 20,000 reasons anonymity is the best policy

                • 03/10/2017
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                While we have all been off worrying about short-term letting and inflammable cladding, something quite remarkable has happened – the Flat Chat Forum has just quickly ticked over its 20,000th…

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