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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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    Forum: Can an unseen screen alter ‘appearance’?

    • 06/12/2023
    • Author Jimmy-T

    Having spent years trying to answer readers’ questions or, more to the point, allowing Flatchatters to answer each other’s, I have a question for you. I have recently bought an…

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      Forum: Owner’s workers parking in visitor spots

      • 27/09/2022
      • Author Jimmy-T

      A question that goes back to March this year has been revived, obviously because it hasn’t been resolved. Basically it involves an owner of a commercial property in a strata…

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        Forum: Lift repair plans come crashing down

        • 29/03/2022
        • Author Jimmy-T

        QUESTION OF THE WEEK: You know things have come to a sad state in a block when the only way forward on a long-running and contentious issue seems to involve…

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          Podcast 69 – fostering pets, falling rents, failing tradies and TV flats

          • 14/04/2020
          • Author Jimmy-T

          This week’s Flat Chat Wrap has just about everything; pets, tradies, TV shows set in apartments and, of course, Airbnb – plenty to keep your spirits up through the Lockdown.…

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            From the Forum: Ex-member driving tradies away

            • 08/10/2019
            • Author Jimmy-T

            One of the oddities of strata life has popped up this week with a sacked committee owner wreaking revenge on his neighbours through nefarious but strictly legal means. With clearly…

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              Roundup: Monstered by tradies with trucks

              • 27/03/2017
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              I was in at the ABC doing my strata spot with James Valentine the other day and the question of monster trucks and the increasing squeeze in apartment block car…

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