We’re Back – Lawyer in the Hotseat returns
Back by popular demand, join JimmyT as he fires questions that are both curly and sometimes quirky, but always informative, at David Bannerman, principal of Bannermans Lawyers. Kicking off at 3.30…
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Podcast: Strata manager scandal isn’t over
As you’d expect, a lot of this week’s podcast is taken up with the resignation of the SCA-NSW President and Netstrata boss Stephen Brell, as well as the ABC News…
Forum: When the wrong thing is the right choice
There’s a post in the Forum this week which perfectly encapsulates the quandary that often comes up in strata between doing the right thing and just getting things done. In…
Podcast: Good morning, Vietnam apartments
The Flat Chat Wrap comes to you from a whole other country – or at least half of it does – with Jimmy in Saigon trying to finish his fourth…
Forum: Power and beauty of a big red button
There’s a Flatchatter out there who deserves a herogram from us all – although he has chosen to remain anonymous, so that ain’t going to happen. A couple of weeks…
Podcast: Why the rental gap is closing fast
There are myriad reasons why apartment rents are getting closer to and even, in a couple of areas, have overtaken the rents demanded for houses.Is it because the immigration tap…
Forum: Strata Manager hiding behind ‘privacy’
Just when we were starting to get worried about posts to the Forum tailing off, there has been a virtual tsunami and questions and complaints, but the one that jumps…
Podcast: ‘Worst-ever block’ and Greens v Nimbys
In this week’s Flat Chat Wrap podcast we look at a report that building commissioner David Chandler has issued a stop-work order at a Wollongong construction site after structural defects…
Forum: Frenemies wrestle over new carpet
The first ever apartment dispute I heard about when I started down this endless river of words about 20 years ago concerned two “captains of industry” who shared a lift…
POLL: What shops do you want in your block?
This week’s poll is related to two stories that we have mention in the Flat Chat Wrap podcast. One is all about “placemaking” which is building homes in a way…
Podcast: Find your place … just shop around
In this week’s pod we look at “placemaking” which seems to be designing communities simply to make them nicer places to live. By nicer, of course, we mean places that…
Forum: Mending fences creates division – twice
We have never been known for sitting on the fence here at Flatchat but we have two fence issues in the Forum this week. In one, the builder of a…