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Forum: When a sticky-beak is a spying mission

  • 10/04/2025
  • Author Jimmy-T

Forum: When a sticky beak is spying, permission to add a storey, strata committee ignoring tribunal orders and how a tied vote passed an AGM resolution.

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    Podcast: Block voting and election home truths

    • 03/04/2025
    • Author Jimmy-T

    Podcast: Parties promise more homes (with very different policies), Vic to get low-rise blocks, Strata managers want national defects protection and rents rise.

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      Forum: Is this new proxy farming voter fraud?

      • 19/12/2024
      • Author Jimmy-T

      The new proxy farming, not refunding unneeded special levies, dealing with an added asbestos shed and revealing defects to potential buyers - all in this week's Forum.

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        Forum: Stripping away sneaky voting powers

        • 09/11/2023
        • Author Jimmy-T

        One of the small but significant changes proposed in the strata laws currently making their way through the NSW parliament will be that powers of attorney votes (POA) will be…

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          Podcast: Minions to the fore in war on Nimbys

          • 05/10/2023
          • Author Jimmy-T

          This week, we open up with a chat about our increasingly popular polls and the surprising results this week revealing what annoys you most about your neighbours. Then we take…

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            Forum: Cost cuts target legals and managers

            • 28/09/2023
            • Author Jimmy-T

            The poll we’ve been conducting for the past week has been very revealing. Okay,  two of the top four items that you would cut back if your budgets got a…

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              Forum: Outvoted by other blocks in scheme

              • 19/05/2023
              • Author Jimmy-T

              Strata democracy is an odd beast.  Whether by apathy, ignorance or sheer bloody-mindedness, a majority who don’t care about an issue, can go against the wishes of a minority who…

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                When a family plan is a bit too cosy for comfort

                • 05/12/2022
                • Author Jimmy-T

                In a week where we are shining the spotlight on flaws in Victorian strata (here, here and here) and addressing the challenges owners face in Queensland, it’s only fair that…

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                  Podcast: Power grabs and fraudsters – two rants

                  • 29/11/2022
                  • Author Jimmy-T

                  This week’s podcast is short but not very sweet (despite it being our 200th). Sue is away in the UK, which allows me to vent about a couple of issues…

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                    Forum: ‘Free’ votes give developer total control

                    • 15/11/2022
                    • Author Jimmy-T

                    We have a few fascinating questions on the Forum this week but the most intriguing one concerns a new, staged development where the developer has managed to hang on to…

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                      Forum: Strata pros who won’t talk to owners

                      • 04/10/2022
                      • Author Jimmy-T

                      Things tend to be a little quiet around holiday weekends but one discussion caught the eye this week and it concerns a solicitor telling committee members that they will only…

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                        Forum: Man with the power who doesn’t want it

                        • 18/08/2022
                        • Author Jimmy-T

                        This is one of those stories that you remember whenever anyone complains about there being too much bureaucracy around apartment blocks and buildings in general. One Flatchatter in Victoria has…

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