Forum: Chill out over ‘crazy’ air-con ban
With temperatures going through the roof every other day and humidity reaching saturation – at least, when we’re not in the middle of a downpour – there’s a very timely…
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Forum: Whose electric cable is it anyway?
Easter is upon us and the furious deluge of questions and answers has been reduced to an irritated trickle. One reader wants to know why his strata manger has said…
Costs and delays behind renovation war of words
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…
Forum: Locked out as car park under repair
QUESTION OF THE WEEK: There’s a good old-fashioned strata barney going on over on the Flat Chat Forum. It started when a tenant was told by her property manager that…
Forum: Delayed complaint leads to doubt over debt
Here’s a tricky one from a Flatchatter who wants to do the right thing but isn’t sure how much he should actually do. The problem is that the owner downstairs…
Forum: Who pays for gate crasher’s damage?
There are some issues that bring out the bush lawyer in all of us. Take the sub-tenant who accidentally drove into his block’s garage gate, doing $4000 worth of damage.…
FORUM: Who pays when a common property pipe bursts?
If there’s one area of strata law in NSW that has always puzzled me, it’s the rule that says, while an owners corporation must pay for the damage caused to…
Five false economies holding back your block
It’s a real estate sign you rarely see around Sydney these days: “Luxury flats – resort facilities – low levies” Those too-good-to-be-true promises disappeared when new laws in NSW allowed…
Roundup: Car hits wall, insurer slugs tenant. Who pays?
There’s a post in the Forum this week that should warm the cockles of your heart – but I’m afraid it just has steam coming out of my ears. A…