Forum: Rookie reno error and terrible tenants
We have an all-too familiar tale from Victoria (yay!) this week where an owner has decided to take out a load-bearing wall in his flat, in a small, older apartment…
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Podcast: Smears and fears as Commish targetted
If NSW Building Commissioner David Chandler has served no other function, he earns our respect and gratitude for being a very useful source of entertaining, informative and occasionally horrifying stories.…
How to save strata cash … and the planet
Want to do your bit to save the planet AND save your owners a chunk of money? City of Sydney has extended the deadline for their Smart Green Apartments program…
Forum: Law breakers want to sue over complaints
Our “star forum post” this week (for want of a better term) concerns a resident of a mixed use block where the proprietors of the commercial units all come from…
Podcast: The many sins of commission at Fair Trading
If there is one area of NSW Liberal politics that may be glad that the kerfuffle over the appointment of a trade envoy to New York is drawing so much…
Tenants can take OCs to NCAT over defects
Tenants have the legal right to take their owners corporations to a NSW Tribunal to force them to fix faults in common property, an NCAT Appeals panel has ruled, but…
Forum: When you can’t do what the law demands
Usually in the intros to these Forum roundups, we try to give you the best of the newest posts. It just so happens that there are plenty to choose from…
Webinars – committees and forced sales
They say a camel is a horse designed by a committee – but then what better beast to get you across a desert? This month our sponsors Bannermans Lawyers are…
Castle owners under siege over fire safety
People love to cite the classic Australian movie The Castle whenever bureaucracy starts interfering with our rights to do what we want in our homes. But when your strata block…
Refusal to allow second Frenchie challenged
Does gaining permission for one dog in a strata scheme mean you should automatically be allowed a second pooch? And does a by-law allowing permission to keep “an animal” mean…
Fair Trading fall-out: Perrottet sacks Petinos
Small Business and Fair Trading Minister Eleni Petinos was sacked on Sunday (August 31), barely a week after Building Commissioner David Chandler announced he would be cutting short his recently…
Forum: Company title – quirky, quaint and quiet
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…