Rapid response law to curb holiday let horrors
Noosa Shire Council is about to become the first council in Queensland, if not Australia, to insist on holiday letting landlords having a rapid response system in place to deal…
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Queensland to confront ‘toxic’ strata culture
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…
Qld owners use pester power to curb contracts
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…
Survey aims to challenge suspect Qld strata laws
Before the state elections in Queensland last year, the state’s Deputy Premier Steven Miles invited the Unit Owners Association of Queensland (UOAQ) Committee to contribute to a legislation review regarding…
Qld strata: Confusing one day, corrupted the next
Even with interstate travel restrictions tightening, rather than easing, we can be pretty sure that travel within Australia will be possible before international destinations come back on line. With that…
How Airbnb hastens the end for Queensland’s on-site caretakers
Can two wrongs make a right? First of all, let’s define “wrong”. I reckon the commercial exploitation of residential apartments through online holiday letting is wrong. I also think Queensland’s…
Roundup: Strata cyber-bullies brought to book
Over the years we’ve had a few stories about strata bullies in Flat Chat. Bullying in the workplace is bad enough but when it’s happening in your own home it…
Queensland caretaker rip-off and repeat
Queensland was one of the first states in Australia to fully embrace strata living and it has, in the past, led the way on many innovations, like secret voting, limits…