The Good Oil

Here at Flatchat Mansions, we’re sure that if you counted up the number of times different subjects were raised, parking would be numero uno. And as much as we try…

Curbing crazy EC members

It’s hard to know what to say about Harry Triguboff’s statement, mentioned in passing in a recent interview in the Sydney Morning Herald, that he had persuaded Bob Carr to…

Eat yourselves to death

Spring is just around the corner and everybody who lives above a neighbour with a barbecue knows exactly what that means. QUESTION: Our 200-plus unit Strata Scheme has a bylaw…

High Cost of the High Life

A friendly FlatChatter bailed me up the other day to complain about one of those perennial apartment living gripes – levies. Now, this bloke lives in a big sub-penthouse apartment…

Flatchat Hits a Century

Believe it or not, this is the 100th Flatchat column since we started back in 2004. In the intervening years every tragic aspect of strata life has paraded through these…

Just Don’t Do It

Those of us who live in apartment and love it worry a little that all the negative press (mostly generated by this column) might put people off buying into buildings…

Who ya gonna call?

When things go wrong in Strata-land – and we know they do – who’s going to sort things out for you? At various times all sorts of options have been…