From the Forum: Soft-touch seniors don’t get it
How bad does a strata scheme have to be before you head off to NCAT and apply for the appointment of a statutory strata manager? Very, very bad, is the…
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Could we ever have a not-for-profit strata manager?
I fielded a phone call from a former NSW Fair Trading Minister the other day asking why there isn’t such a thing as a not-for-profit strata management agency. By the…
From the Forum: is your strata manager way too laid back?
There are some committees and strata managers that are just too laid back for their own – and their owners’ – good. How many warning notices do you send out…
From the Forum: How do you deal with a dope who can’t cope?
There’s an interesting statistic that I never tire of quoting: no strata manager in NSW has ever been struck off for being really bad at his or her job. And…
Rogue developer gets a reality check
Regular readers will recall the saga of the rogue developer on the far North coast who basically tried to run his new building to suit himself, with no regard for…
Strata management giant slugs unit owners millions
More than 200,000 unit owners have been slugged with compulsory ‘compliance fees’ potentially totalling millions of dollars, that critics have branded ‘gouging’. And the NSW Government Minister in charge of…
How can you put a strata pro in charge?
How bad does your strata committee have to be before a tribunal will sack them and appoint a strata manager to take over? If you can’t vote the committee out,…
NCAT: New name, same problems?
Way back in the early days of Flat Chat – about 11 years ago – I wrote a piece for the Sydney Morning Herald called “Send In The Clowns” which…
How to choose a new strata manager
That old saying of “better the devil you know” rarely applies more than in your choice of strata managers. But if, like one Flat Chat reader, your strata manager’s contract…