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Pssst. Don’t tell anyone, but I think we’ve fixed strata. I say this because after a bumper couple of weeks with a stack of new questions, we haven’t had one…
Pssst. Don’t tell anyone, but I think we’ve fixed strata. I say this because after a bumper couple of weeks with a stack of new questions, we haven’t had one…
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 –…
One of the small but significant changes proposed in the strata laws currently making their way through the NSW parliament will be that powers of attorney votes (POA) will be…
Last week we touched on some of the proposed amendments to the NSW strata schemes Act, admittedly focussing on the “sexier” stuff like removal of barriers to pet ownership. But…
There has been a trend over the past few years for blocks that had one electricity supply, who then shared the costs according to unit entitlements, to install separate meters.…
Strata managers are in the Forum firing line this week. OK, nothing new there, but there’s always a different angle. For instance, one of them hasn’t held an AGM for…
Strata is full of people offering advice and opinions based on nothing more than something they heard from someone who might not even live in an apartment … or even…
Things tend to be a little quiet around holiday weekends but one discussion caught the eye this week and it concerns a solicitor telling committee members that they will only…
A question that goes back to March this year has been revived, obviously because it hasn’t been resolved. Basically it involves an owner of a commercial property in a strata…
There’s a sense of the quirky and quaint about company title. The very idea that you must pass an interview by the “board” of existing owners before you can be…
It’s a bumper crop of Forum posts this week but I’m drawn to one that reminds me of a friend of mine – a real estate agent – who was…
One of the longest-running rows in strata has been around the fact that strata managers can legally charge commission on the insurance policies they organise for strata owners. Considering strata…