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Forum: Are no-pets by-laws back by stealth?

  • 30/05/2024
  • Author Jimmy-T

Here’s a blast from the past: A Flatchatter is thinking of buying into a strata villa and has discovered it has a “no pets” by-law. “Weren’t they outlawed after the…

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    Forum: Back with a brand new year screamer

    • 12/01/2024
    • Author Jimmy-T

    Ah, we’re back with a bumper post bag chock full of all the odds and ends (some of them very odd) of strata life. There are some perennial favourites –…

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      Forum: Owner uses pool despite having moved out

      • 08/03/2022
      • Author Jimmy-T

      There are times when what’s right and what’s legal seem to be in direct conflict – and strata is one of those areas of life replete with these tricky, quirky…

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        New app to handle heavy lifting in levy calculation

        • 22/02/2021
        • Author Jimmy-T

        Imagine taking an online tool like a mortgage calculator – one of those apps on a lot of banks’ websites that tell you that you can’t afford to buy the…

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