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Unit buyers beware – the Qld disease is spreading

  • 30/08/2023
  • Author Jimmy-T

The true extent of the price apartment owners pay in Queensland due to its distorted management rights system is becoming apparent. And even more alarming, it looks like the “Queensland…

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    Queensland to confront ‘toxic’ strata culture

    • 23/08/2021
    • Author Jimmy-T

    Thinking of investing in a unit in Covid-free Queensland? Be careful. It seems those familiar helicopter shots of glittering high-rise apartment blocks marching up the sands of Gold Coast beaches…

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      Qld owners use pester power to curb contracts

      • 12/04/2021
      • Author Jimmy-T

      Here at Flat Chat we have long campaigned against the “legalised corruption” of the pre-sale of caretaker management contracts in Queensland. There, for no better reason than to put more…

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        Queensland-style contract con tricks on their way

        • 13/12/2020
        • Author Jimmy-T

        First it was “embedded networks” now it’s the pre-sale of management rights – it seems there are some NSW developers who don’t miss a trick when it comes to squeezing…

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