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Forum: Can we hire tradies without paying SM?

  • 23/05/2025
  • Author Jimmy-T

Forum: Can you hire a gardener directly? Advice needed on collective sale. Chair hates new air-con. Owners add a room. Drying carpets after upstairs fire.

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    Strata manager myths exploded … well, kind of

    • 14/05/2025
    • Author Jimmy-T

    Many strata manager myths have been exploded in this Q&A with Pica boss Bobby Lehane. Some are still up for discussion.

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      Strata managers demand more defect protections

      • 03/04/2025
      • Author Jimmy-T

      The national president of Strata Community Association - the strata managers' body - calls for a nationwide policy on better protection from building defects

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        Poll: Strata law changes that you like most

        • 04/12/2024
        • Author Jimmy-T

        Choose the five strata law changes that appeal to you most - and see what everyone else is thinking.

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          Thirty years on, strata scandal history repeats

          • 12/04/2024
          • Author Jimmy-T

          Subscribers to our newsletter will have already seen this but I thought it was worth a wider readership – JT. There’s a saying along the lines of “those who do…

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            Tell us what you think and (maybe) win a $50 gift card

            • 03/05/2023
            • Author Jimmy-T

            Do you live in a strata block that runs like a well-oiled machine, with no hassles and little strife, and wonder what exactly you pay your strata manager for? Alternatively,…

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              Forum: All fired up over EV safety in strata

              • 21/03/2023
              • Author Jimmy-T

              There’s a bit of a stoush developing in the Forum over the charging of electric cars. If it’s not concerns about exploding batteries and subsequent fires, it’s worries about sneaky…

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