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Forum: Our bidet eyes on a bathroom reno

  • 17/04/2025
  • Author Jimmy-T

Forum: Tenant wants a bidet, new manager and old debt, effect of abstentions, committe refuses to claim, and strata manager contract challenge.

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    Forum: Strip club poser for strata scheme

    • 18/10/2024
    • Author Jimmy-T

    What can owners do when the fact that there's a strip club in the block causes insurance premiums to triple?

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      Forum: On the offensive over fixing a fence

      • 02/05/2023
      • Author Jimmy-T

      We have a real mixed bag of questions and answers this week so we’ll get straight into it. An owner’s dispute with the owners corp over replacement of a shared…

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        Costs and delays behind renovation war of words

        • 31/01/2023
        • Author Jimmy-T

        As we often say here, apartment living can be a minefield of unintended consequences. And it even sees battles in which neither of two diametrically opposed forces are wrong. It…

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          Forum: The trouble with renos okayed on the nod

          • 21/12/2022
          • Author Jimmy-T

          There are a few quibbles this week about changes to common property and what happens if they are made without proper by-laws. Now, in NSW at least, if you need…

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            Forum: ‘Free’ votes give developer total control

            • 15/11/2022
            • Author Jimmy-T

            We have a few fascinating questions on the Forum this week but the most intriguing one concerns a new, staged development where the developer has managed to hang on to…

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              Noisy flooring flaws exposed by bodged reno

              • 15/11/2022
              • Author Jimmy-T

              Here’s a story that will bring a smile to the faces of anyone who has ever suffered the thuds and thumps of an upstairs neighbour who has put down a…

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                Confusion rules: Design and Building Act explained

                • 14/11/2022
                • Author Jimmy-T

                When it came to tightening quality control of building work, it was always likely that the new NSW Design and Building and Practitioners Act would have unintended consequences. The Act…

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                  Podcast: Flooring flaws exposed in reno bodge

                  • 08/11/2022
                  • Author Jimmy-T

                  There’s a little bit of everything in this week’s podcast.  We start with a story about how people who either ignore or don’t know by-laws and regulations (not to mention…

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                    Forum: Rookie reno error and terrible tenants

                    • 14/09/2022
                    • Author Jimmy-T

                    We have an all-too familiar tale from Victoria (yay!) this week where an owner has decided to take out a load-bearing wall in his flat, in a small, older apartment…

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                      Forum: Sounds of life too much for serial complainer

                      • 30/11/2021
                      • Author Jimmy-T

                      It may be true that beauty is in the eye of the beholder but it’s also a fact that intrusive noise is in the ear of the listener. Anybody who…

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                        Forum: Reno nightmare as upstairs flats combined

                        • 23/11/2021
                        • Author Jimmy-T

                        You can feel the sense of dread in one of our posts to the Forum this week.  A builder has bought the top two flats in a small block and…

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