Forum: Reno plan panic, possums and barking dogs
Sometimes it’s hard to tell whether owners are up to something, or they simply don’t know the correct procedures or they have left things too late and are panicking. I…
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Forum: Do we have a right to check child safety locks
It’s already been several years since we were ordered to fit child safety locks to windows above the first floor in strata buildings. It’s an owners corp responsibility to “ensure”…
Forum: Window repair costs don’t add up
This week a Flatchatter doesn’t understand how her share of the cost of having all the windows in her building repaired is more that the quote she received for having…
Forum: $100k in the kitty no window of opportunity
Here’s a problem a lot of strata schemes would love to have. A frustrated Flatchatter has written to us about her pre-1974 apartment block that has about $100k in the…
Forum: Anti-pet chair undermining sales pitch
What do you do when your neighbours actively undermine your attempts to get a decent price when you try to sell your unit? Nowhere near the same scale as our…
Ticking clocks and closing windows – time to deal with defects
Towards the end of last century, around about the time state governments started allowing apartment block developers to appoint their preferred certifiers, launching the self-certification scandal, HIH Insurance collapsed. HIH…
Window lock shock – you must install but you can remove
Following the tragic events in Bankstown recently, when two young children fell three storeys from an apartment block window, there has been a lot of discussion on Flat Chat about…
Roundup: A little update goes a long way
With the recent changes in strata laws, we realised a lot of our information needed an update, links were broken and there are new answers to old questions, so this…
Window of opportunity as safety laws loom
The big day, July 1, came and went with the proposed changes to the strata Act still in abeyance until November 30, as was announced this week. However, March 13,…