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Jimmy Thomson & Sue Williams

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Jimmy Thomson & Sue Williams

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Jimmy Thomson & Sue Williams

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As you’d expect, a lot of this week’s podcast is taken up with the resignation of the SCA-NSW President and Netstrata boss Stephen Brell, as well as the ABC News story and its follow-up that exposed his company’s business practices..We’re takin
The Flat Chat Wrap comes to you from a whole other country – or at least half of it does – with Jimmy in Saigon trying to finish his fourth novel (writing, not reading).While there he has discovered that there are very similar problems with ove
There are myriad reasons why apartment rents are getting closer to and even, in a couple of areas, have overtaken the rents demanded for houses.Is it because the immigration tap has been turned back on for people from countries where they aren'
In this week’s Flat Chat Wrap podcast we look at a report that building commissioner David Chandler has issued a stop-work order at a Wollongong construction site after structural defects were discovered in a 149-unit apartment block.According
In this week’s pod we look at “placemaking” which seems to be designing communities just to make them nicer places to live.By nicer, of course, we mean places that don’t stress you out in the walk to and from the station every day. More trees a
We’ve lifted a post from the Flat Chat Forum this week to illustrate two issues – one basic common sense, the other highly contentious.The post explains how a strata manager managed to legitimately charge $17,000 for sending out five emails.  O
This week on the podcast we are talking about YOU.  At least, we are talking about your pet hates, as defined by our highly unscientific and totally skewed poll on who irritates you most in your strata scheme.The poll is on the Flat Chat home p
There’s some good news, some bad news and some great news in this week’s Flat Chat Wrap.The good news (for investors) is that apartment prices and rents are going through the roof in Brisbane. The boom is being stimulated by preparations for th
This week we take a deep dive into the next swathe of proposed NSW strata reforms which will include attempts to cut through the baloney and BS and make it easier for owners to overturn unfair contracts.What does that mean, exactly.  Well, when
When newspaper reports presented the story about the defects in the Lachlan's Line apartment block in Macquarie Park, as if it was another Mascot Towers, Building Commissioner scolded journalists, assuring everyone that there was no need to pan
After three pods in a row about Mascot Towers, we decided you (and we) needed a break so we are heading off to the seaside – figuratively, not literally – to see how property prices are doing on the North and South coasts of NSW.One report has
We’re back and this is an absolute blockbuster, which, considering the topic, is an oddly ironic term.Last week Sue had an exclusive interview with NSW Building Commissioner David Chandler about the benighted Mascot Towers – the building that s
We have an absolute rock star podcast guest this week, in NSW Building Commission Policy Director Angus Abadee.Angus gave us a good 20 minutes of his valuable time to explain what the recent expansion of the building commission means, as well a
Don’t know if Building Commissioner David Chandler has a hotline to Santa but with the  Building Commission being boosted from 40 to 400 inspectors, you’d have to think his Christmas wishes have come true.Then there’s the government plan to com
It’s a packed Wrap this week with a lot happening in and around strata. Global credit rating and data analysis agency Equifax – the people who measure how many of David Chandler’s gold stars developers should get – have conducted a survey into
In this week’s Flat Chat Wrap we talk about the proposal to introduce architectural pattern books in NSW.Will they mean even more cookie-cutter apartment blocks or will  it simply result in the buildings that we need in a hurry not looking like
Some big, big issues have shuffled shamelessly into the glare of the podcast spotlight his week.Firstly we talk about the buying and selling of management rights and how that has become a huge, $8billion dollar business nationally.Should we be
The Wrap has gone all-electric this week, starting with Sue resolutely defending her e-scooter in the face of growing fears about fires from Lithium-ion batteries (and Jimmy’s column from the AFR).So what causes ebike and escooter battery fires
In this week’s Flat Chat Wrap we welcome freshly minted Strata Commissioner John Minns (not to be confused with NSW Premier Chris Minns) to tell us about his new role, his challenges and hopes.For the past two years John has been NSW Property S
We’re heading across the border to Victoria this week where the Greens are flexing their balance-of-power muscle by demanding changes to the state housing program, as detailed in this post on the Flat Chat website.We ask what it is that they wa
In this week’s podcast we find ourselves victims of the kind of scams we have been warning people about for a couple of years.We are about to go to the first AGM of our new apartment block and have discovered there is a very meaty embedded netw
There’s good news for those abandoned covid fur-babies and the apartment residents who’d love to offer them new homes. The highly dubious tactics clearly aimed at deterring people from having pets in apartments – workarounds for the ban on blan
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 a look at what NSW Premier Chris Minns really means when he “declares
Busy, busy, busy in the Flat Chat bunker this week. We start with a wrap-up of what went on at the Owners Corporation Network (OCN) Strata Matters conference last week including a grab-bag of politicians talking about what’s been done and what
This week we introduce you to the concept of “downvesting” – no, it’s not a singlet fashioned from duck feathers, but a growing trend whereby impending retirees buy a property that they plan to downsize into but rent it out until they are ready
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