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Election special: Home is where the votes are

  • 10/05/2022
  • Author Jimmy-T

With Australia’s political parties throwing promises of cash around like lottery winners who forgot they didn’t want publicity, our national housing crisis has been one of the more significant targets…

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    Forum: Covid con trick as owners denied strata roll

    • 05/10/2021
    • Author Jimmy-T

    Here’s a neat double standard straight out of the “Obstructive Strata Manager Handbook (Covid-19 edition).” Our Flatchatter’s partner has just been told by his strata manager that the scheme will…

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      Forum: Considerate owner has carpet conflict

      • 31/08/2021
      • Author Jimmy-T

      They say no good turn goes unpunished and one Flatchatter certainly has a dilemma because she wants to do the right thing. On the one hand, in between tenancies she…

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        Forum: Back-scratching backsliders face big fines

        • 27/04/2021
        • Author Jimmy-T

        There’s always likely to be a bit of mutual back-scratching on any strata committee, but when it runs to turning a blind eye to payments that should have been made…

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          Unintended consequences of late levies – lost jobs and voting rights

          • 03/04/2020
          • Author Jimmy-T

          There’s a lot of chat at the moment about the pressure on people to pay levies when they might have lost their job or their income has been reduced. I…

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            Flat Chat Wrap #44 – Pet death threat and dodgy votes

            • 15/10/2019
            • Author Jimmy-T

            In this week’s podcast JimmyT and Sue Williams look again at the issue of the overturning of the pet ban by-law in one of Sydneys biggest and poshest apartment blocks,…

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              From the Forum: Stray cats and rat runs

              • 02/10/2019
              • Author Jimmy-T

              Some people like cats, others can’t abide them, but one Flatchatter is being driven nuts by some feral cats and, more to the point, the resident who feeds them. If…

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                From the Forum: Zombie proxies and dead levies

                • 27/08/2019
                • Author Jimmy-T

                Here’s a question that becomes more relevant as increasing numbers of oldies move into strata … and then pass on. Obviously, the petty politics of strata schemes are the last…

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                  Podcast: What the pollies are promising the strata voters of NSW

                  • 19/03/2019
                  • Author Jimmy-T

                  It’s hard to believe that we’ll be voting on Saturday (March 23) for, possibly, the first new government in NSW in eight years. It’s also hard to believe that we…

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                    Coalition vows to make it easier to vote solar

                    • 19/03/2019
                    • Author Jimmy-T

                    Just when we thought the government didn’t care about strata they come up with a pre-election announcement designed to raise the high-rise feelgood factor. According to this story in the…

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                      How Airbnb votes could shape state government

                      • 31/01/2019
                      • Author Jimmy-T

                      The spread of short-term holiday letting into residential homes could be a significant local factor in the up-coming state election, according to Independent Sydney MP Alex Greenwich. And, depending on…

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                        Airbnb launches campaign against pro-resident MPs

                        • 15/12/2018
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                        Don’t say we didn’t warn you. Having had an easy ride from Australia’s mostly pliant politicians, Airbnb has warned that they will now use their considerable online clout to campaign…

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