Your Qs and As: All the 2023 Forum posts that fit

Never mind all the strata news and even our podcasts -although we’re proud of the lot of them – the Flat Chat forum is the engine that drives this website.

Every week we highlight one question or comment and then use that to lead into a list of other strata headscratchers.

Here are some of the posts that have kept you intrigued, informed and entertained in 2023. And remember, the stories at the end of each of these links leads to a whole bunch of fresh conundrums.

• How you can end up paying a share of legal costs when you vote against a request on a technicality, but the Tribunal approves it. That’s HERE.
• My downstairs neighbour has erected a tent in their garden and it reaches right up to my balcony. That’s HERE.
• Can an unseen screen be deemed to alter the external appearance of a unit? That’s HERE.
• An owner has applied to have an American Staffy in their flat. Would you vote to allow it into the block?  That’s HERE.
• Strata Committee owners have been given $50 cash cards to make it easier for them to pay incidental bills.  Is this a good idea? That’s HERE.
• Absent neighbour was a hoarder, leaving us with a health and fire hazard in our block. That’s HERE.
• How proxy farmers switched to Powers of Attorney to by-pass (now changed) strata laws. That’s HERE.
• One owner has an AVO against a committee member but both are legally entitled to attend meetings.  So which of them has to stay away?  That’s HERE.
• Tenant is running an illegal day-care centre in her garage. That’s HERE.
• Can you force a nasty neighbour to sell their apartment and move out? That’s HERE.
• Determined owner keeps applying for the same permission despite being rejected multiple times. That’s HERE.
• TV report on noisy neighbours misses the point … as usual. That’s HERE.
• Should you enforce rules on kids playing on common property driveways? That’s HERE.
• Should you let other owners’ levy debts slide? That’s HERE and HERE.
• How one owner can stymie the wishes of the majority of neighbours. That’s HERE.
• By-law bans indoor e-scooter and bike battery charging.  That’s HERE.
• How do we sack our strata manager?  That’s HERE.

This is just a sample of Forum posts from the past few months and, as we said,  each of these stories also carries links to more questions and answers. 

If you want to dig deeper, you can go to the Forums home page and use the search facility to zero in on the topics that interest you. Or just look at the list of recent forum posts on your phone, tablet or computer screen

How to ask and answer questions

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The best way these days may be to click on “Forum: Your Qs & A’s” on the top menu bar on a computer screen or on the drop-down menu (three lines) on the right of the screen on phones and tablets, under the Strata Choice ad. Then click on the topic title that interests you, and off you go.
Alternatively, you can look at the list of “Your latest questions and answers” under the ads on the right of the page on a computer screen. Or at the bottom, after the ads and stories, on a tablet or phone.
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