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Forum: It’s all about Windows (and Apples too)Parking levy could cost owners over $3k per spaceQuirky: Govt grabs Sydney Town Hall Square planNews: When affordability is a national disgraceCould AI replace your SM? Ask Claude
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Forum: It’s all about Windows (and Apples too)

  • 15/10/2026
  • Author Jimmy-T

Forum: Digital Darwinism, sacking committee members, using the bathroom as a laundry (on radio) and committee ducks difficult window cleaning.

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    Parking levy could cost owners over $3k per space

    • 15/10/2026
    • Author Jimmy-T

    Vistor spaces in Sydney's apartment living hot spots could cost owners corps $3,000 a year for each one, new webinar will explain.

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      Quirky: Govt grabs Sydney Town Hall Square plan

      • 15/10/2026
      • Author Jimmy-T

      QUIRKY: State steps in to take control of the plan to demolish office blocks and create a grand plaza opposite Sydney Town Hall.

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        News: When affordability is a national disgrace

        • 15/10/2026
        • Author Jimmy-T

        NEWS: One person's house price crash is another's affordability boost, meanwhile buyers struggle to get an honest price guide.

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          Could AI replace your SM? Ask Claude

          • 15/10/2026
          • Author Jimmy-T

          You can safely bet some strata managers are already using AI to help them with facts and figures - but are they feeding the beast that will destroy them?

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            How AI suggests we deal with a noisy neighbour

            • 08/10/2026
            • Author Jimmy-T

            We asked three AI platforms for an answer to a delicate strata problem - just to see if they could really replace a compassionate strata manager.

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              Forum: Does strata smart mean computer savvy?

              • 08/10/2026
              • Author Jimmy-T

              Forum: The question of the week is, how computer-savvy do you have to be to serve on your committee - and how dumb is the compulsory training?

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                News: One story – where can we afford to live?

                • 08/10/2026
                • Author Jimmy-T

                News: Families forced back together, low deposit buyers squeezed, owners owe more, rent strike warning ... and luxury apartments are booming.

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                  House rents fall but apartments on the rise

                  • 08/10/2026
                  • Author Jimmy-T

                  Is the fall in house rents a blip or a trend, and will more people switching to apartments make their rents rise even more?

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                    More of your Qs and As from the lawyer’s Hot Seat

                    • 08/10/2026
                    • Author Jimmy-T

                    Embedded networks, special levies, vexatious emailers, refusal to get reno permission, mould, committee training, forced to vote and money laundering.

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                      Quirky: Property buyers can’t keep off the grass

                      • 08/10/2026
                      • Author Jimmy-T

                      Quirky: Stars selling mansions, dreamers buying chunks of grass, data centres squeezing rural homes and Australia's "worst" Woolworths slammed.

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                        And the loser is… SMH hands out ICAC awards

                        • 01/10/2026
                        • Author Jimmy-T

                        When we said the ICAC Rosny hearings were the best ticket in town, we never thought the Sydney Morning Herald would turn them into an awards show

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                          • Quirky: Govt grabs Sydney Town Hall Square plan
                          • News: When affordability is a national disgrace
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