Podcast: Star-struck buyers, Mascot misery
It’s a packed Wrap this week with a lot happening in and around strata. Global credit rating and data analysis agency Equifax – the people who measure how many of…
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Forum: SC members get $5K cards for spending
How much do you trust your committee members? Would you give them or even just your office-bearers each a $5k debit card so they could pay bills as and when…
New strata laws ease through NSW parliament
The most radical shake-up of strata law in Australia since the current Act came into force in 2016 could, at a push, be in place by Christmas. Changes to NSW’s…
Chandler’s power boost as phoenixing under fire
Dodgy developers who use phoenixing schemes to defraud apartment buyers and deprive them of their legal rights will suffer another blow next week when the NSW parliament is expected to…
Podcast: Designer blocks and Broadway shocks
In this week’s Flat Chat Wrap we talk about the proposal to introduce architectural pattern books in NSW. Will they mean even more cookie-cutter apartment blocks or will it simply…
Forum: Hoarder leaves us with another fine mess
This week’s weird and not-so wonderful story comes straight out of one of those TV reality shows about hoarders getting their home cleaned up for free. Our Flatchatter has a…
Podcast: Management rights an $8bn business
Some big, big issues have shuffled shamelessly into the glare of the podcast spotlight his week. Firstly we talk about the buying and selling of management rights and how that…
Forum: Stripping away sneaky voting powers
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…
Podcast: eBike fire hazard, batteries are included
The Wrap has gone all-electric this week, starting with Sue resolutely defending her e-scooter in the face of growing fears about fires from Lithium-ion batteries (and Jimmy’s column from the AFR).…
Come on down to Kiama and see our new flat
Since we’ve been bashing you all over your heads with all sorts of stuff about our new investment- from trouble with the mortgage, to initial AGM stress – we thought…
Forum: Who exits when one owner has an AVO?
Here’s a tricky one for all you legal eaglets, a chance to scratch your Rumpole itch. An owner successfully applies for an Apprehended Personal Violence Order against a committee member.…
Podcast: The other Minns – our strata commish
In this week’s Flat Chat Wrap we welcome freshly minted Strata Commissioner John Minns (not to be confused with NSW Premier Chris Minns) to tell us about his new role,…