Forum: Statutory manager but committee stays
There’s a report on a potentially groundbreaking resolution to an all-too-common issue in the Forum this week. Up until now, in NSW, if you wanted to get rid of your…
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Forum: When a disruptive owner Zooms back in
It’s hard to think of a downside for Covid being behind us (if, indeed, it is) but one unanticipated consequence is the end of the need to hold strata meetings…
Forum: Do-nothing strata managers under fire
Strata managers are in the Forum firing line this week. OK, nothing new there, but there’s always a different angle. For instance, one of them hasn’t held an AGM for…
Forum: Fix for holiday lets and affordability
Look, we know that with half of Sydney under water and the other half trapped at the airport, thoughts of holidays are far from our minds. But foreign tourists are…
Flawed strata thinking in hard flooring
There are many good reasons for installing timber or tiled floors in apartments – and just as many reasons why your neighbours won’t want you to do it. A timber…
Bathroom blues swept away by sea of greens
Bathroom Chronicles, Part 12 Enough of this whingeing – we love our new bathrooms. Why the complaints? Maybe we were too close to it and saw the sausages being made,…
How to get a bigger bath into a much smaller space
Bathroom Chronicles, Part 11. Well, we’re in the home straight, so to speak. Or, to put it another way, we are no longer going round the bend. The shower screens…
Nights on the tiles as cat leaves a future fossil
Bathroom Chronicles, Part 7 We’re rapidly reaching the conclusion that cats and renovations don’t mix. After our misadventures in the hotel across the road, we thought we’d be past the…
Podcast 97: Renovation – best-laid plans (and tiles)
It’s renovations all the way in this week’s Flat Chat Wrap as we chat about a Forum post asking what can be done about a disastrous and unauthorised renovation, now…
Five stages of bathroom renovation grief
It’s been about a month since we decided to renovate our 20-year-old bathrooms and we are going through something that is akin to the five stages of grief. Except, instead…
From the Forum: Rogue committee rides roughshod over rules
It’s been a while since we’ve had a forum post about a committee that’s gone “rogue” – making decisions without consulting other owners and awarding themselves all sorts of perks.…
Stamp duty: Hard floors and high anxiety
A funny little notice appeared in our lifts this week, headlined “Hard Floors and High Heels”. Apart from sounding like a Pedro Almodovar movie, it was a simple request for…