Flat Chat Wrap 49 – Half-million dollar defamation damage
This week’s podcast features JimmyT and Sue Williams examining the half-million dollar turnaround in a strata defamation case, a discussion about who’s the boss in a strata scheme – the…
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Opal chair reveals his year of dealing with disaster
It’s the kind of bad dream that has strata chairs waking up in a cold sweat; being thrust into the heart of a very public building disaster, with residents thrown…
From the Forum: Committee causing parking problems
We fielded a curious question about parking that drew a very enlightening response, this week. One of our Flatchatters can’t easily get to her garage because other residents – including…
How to build a better building facilities manager
In these days of Trumpian hyperbole, you’d hesitate to brand anyone as the best or the worst in their field, unless they had a gold medal around their neck or…
Naming shame – silencing strata committee bullies
Sometimes living in strata is like a soap opera …occasionally it feels like something much more sinister. A friend lives in a small block of about 50 units that trundles…
PODCAST: The buzz on strata – it’s locusts V bees
Are you a locust or a bee? Those are the divisions appearing between residents in Australia as many of us move from the more acquisitive, self-centred lifestyle typified by the…
Flat Chat Wrap #41 – The future of apartments … bees vs locusts
We write and talk a lot about property developers in Flat Chat – not often in positive terms – but we rarely get the chance to hear their side of…
PODCAST: From block parties to hijacked high-rises
It would be fair to say that Flat Chat’s approach to apartment living and strata law over the years has been robustly non-academic. We use often cite anonymous sources, anecdotal…
From the Forum – Ratings sites for blocks, managers and agents
There’s an idea that‘s been floating around for a while now, that we should have a ratings website for good and bad apartment blocks and/or strata managers and rental agents.…
Flat Chat Wrap #36 – From block parties to hijacked high-rises
It would be fair to say that Flat Chat’s approach to apartment living and strata law over the years has been robustly non-academic. We use often cite anonymous sources and…
Flat Chat Wrap #35 – Apartments go to the movies … and see more than they should
If you live in apartments for long enough it’s almost impossible not to catch a glimpse into other people’s lives. Most of us look away, hoping that the same courtesy…
From the Forum: Strange case of the dog that goes wee-wee in the night
There’s so much going on in strata at the moment that we barely need our usual weekly roundup of Forum questions and answers. But then there’s so much going on…