When negative feedback shakes your confidence, it can be difficult to get back to feeling like yourself at work. In this episode, Anne and Frances help a struggling listener who has spent years toning herself down in the workplace after being told that she was too assertive — now, she feels that her modest approach is holding her back. Together, they use Anne and Frances’s “trust triangle” framework to explore how empathy, authenticity, and logic can help you rebuild confidence and trust with your colleagues, and share helpful confidence hacks for getting comfy with discomfort. What problems are you dealing with at work? Text or call 234-FIXABLE or email fixable@ted.com to be featured on the show. For the full text transcript, visit ted.com/podcasts/fixable-transcripts Want to help shape TED’s shows going forward? Fill out our survey ! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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This week we’ve taken the podcast overseas as we’re recording on a cruise ship off the coast of Norway. But it gives us an opportunity to look at one of the vexed questions of living in strata in Australia. You may not know this but there is already one city in Australia that has rent controls. Do they work? Do they keep rents low or just set a benchmark for rent hikes at every opportunity. We take advantage of a stop-over in Amsterdam to find out how rent controls work there – where 45 per cent of the population are tenants – and do they solve the housing problems that it too suffers? And we take a look at the strangest “hotel” rooms in the world and what our cities might be like if everyone rode bikes. That’s all in this week’s Flat Chat Wrap. ____________________________________________________ Flat Chat is all about apartment living, especially in Australia. Find us on Facebook and Twitter and the Flat Chat website. Send comments and questions to mail@flatchat.com.au. Register to ask and answer questions about apartment living anonymously on the website . Recorded by Jimmy Thomson & Sue Williams; Transcribed by Otter.ai. Find out more about Sue Williams and Jimmy Thomson on their websites.…
Last week Sue dropped a bomb into a discussion about new strata laws in NSW, one of which will invalidate by-laws that block sustainability changes because they would alter the look of the building. Does this mean the end of by-laws that forbid drying laundry on balconies? Surely not using a tumble dryer and instead using the wind and sun is a sustainability issue? And, if it is, doesn't that mean, at the very least, out-of-date laundry bans can be changed with a simple majority, meaning that a no-laundry minority of 25 per cent can't veto change. This week we look at the new laws and the current model by-laws and ask if the government hasn't inadvertently started a war between NOOOBs (Not On Our Balconies) and Greenies. And speaking of wars, we also look at a new book about missing anti-development activist Juanita Nielsen which suggests her campaigns to halt unfettered high-rise developments, and her disappearance 50 years ago next month, may have led to the current housing crisis. That's all in this week's Flat Chat Wrap. ____________________________________________________ Flat Chat is all about apartment living, especially in Australia. Find us on Facebook and Twitter and the Flat Chat website. Send comments and questions to mail@flatchat.com.au. Register to ask and answer questions about apartment living anonymously on the website . Recorded by Jimmy Thomson & Sue Williams; Transcribed by Otter.ai. Find out more about Sue Williams and Jimmy Thomson on their websites.…
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If you've been hiding under your bed - and who isn't tempted these days? - you may not have heard that NSW is about to see a second tranche of strata law reforms become a reality on July 1. What are the new laws and what do they mean? We invited Robert Anderson, President of SCA-NSW, the state's professional body for strata managers and service providers, on to the podcast to explain some of them. We discussed the fact that strata contracts will come under Federal consumer protection laws for the first time, and what that means - especially in relation to SCA's much maligned standard contract. Did you know Fair Trading is planning to issue a standard strata management contract, like the one for rentals? Me neither. We also touched on estimates for legal services, new processes for minor renovations, embedded networks, common property repair delays, the doubling of fees for seeing strata records, and the behaviour of committee members at meetings. And Sue thinks she's found a wrinkle that will make it harder for buildings to ban drying laundry on balconies. That's all in this week's (legal) action-packed Flat Chat Wrap. ____________________________________________________ Flat Chat is all about apartment living, especially in Australia. Find us on Facebook and Twitter and the Flat Chat website. Send comments and questions to mail@flatchat.com.au. Register to ask and answer questions about apartment living anonymously on the website . Recorded by Jimmy Thomson & Sue Williams; Transcribed by Otter.ai. Find out more about Sue Williams and Jimmy Thomson on their websites.…
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Imagine if you could build apartments in half the time at 15 per cent less cost and a guarantee of no waterproofing, fire safety or structural defects. ‘Tell ’im he must be dreamin’,” say strata’s Darryl Kerrigans. Apartment blocks take longer to build than ever, cost more, and fire and waterproofing are still endemic defects across the industry. Enter Wayne Larson of PT Blink who is already constructing hundreds of new blocks with the promise that the process will be faster, less costly and with a much, much higher level of quality control. How do they do it? It’s been described as a cross between Lego and Ikea flat pack furniture. Quite simply, at the same time as the steel frame is being constructed on-site, the floors, walls, bathrooms, windows and balconies are being manufactured in factories hundreds of kilometres away. Okay, but doesn’t that mean identical looking chicken coops springing up all around the country? Far from it, says Wayne. They take architect drawings, pull them apart and create the individual components, which then all come together, ready to occupy the spaces created on the steel frame. Have a look at this video and it will make even more sense. But first, listen to this week's Flat Chat Wrap. Enjoy. ____________________________________________________ Flat Chat is all about apartment living, especially in Australia. Find us on Facebook and Twitter and the Flat Chat website. Send comments and questions to mail@flatchat.com.au. Register to ask and answer questions about apartment living anonymously on the website . Recorded by Jimmy Thomson & Sue Williams; Transcribed by Otter.ai. Find out more about Sue Williams and Jimmy Thomson on their websites.…
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As many of you may already know, every second Tuesday, JimmyT goes on ABC Radio with James Valentine on his Afternoon show to chat about apartments. Last week, Jimmy and James took calls from listeners about what you can and can't put on balconies, compulsory training for strata committees, tradies who block car spaces, and car lifts that break down. They also heard from one gentleman who hates strata and everything to do with it. As usual, it's a lively segment, so we thought you might like a taste of what you get on the radio. Jimmy is on with James on Tuesday afternoon, June the 3rd at 2pm. Why not send them a text on 0467 922 702 or call on 1300 222 702 and ask a curly question of your own. And you can hear more of James (without Jimmy) on ABC Afternoons. ____________________________________________________ Flat Chat is all about apartment living, especially in Australia. Find us on Facebook and Twitter and the Flat Chat website. Send comments and questions to mail@flatchat.com.au. Register to ask and answer questions about apartment living anonymously on the website . Recorded by Jimmy Thomson & Sue Williams; Transcribed by Otter.ai. Find out more about Sue Williams and Jimmy Thomson on their websites.…
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나중에 재생 나중에 재생 리스트 좋아요 좋아요In this second part of Lawyer in the Hot Seat, recorded last week, strata legal eagle David Bannerman fields questions from Flat Chat's Jimmy Thomson about a range of issues, starting with what is vexatious litigant and how do you deal with them? Then there's the matter of disputes between neighbours and whether or not the strata committee should get involved - and what they can and should do if they go down that road. We look at embedded networks, how they are used to rip off apartment buyers, who should be warning strata newbies about them, and the very simple way purchasers can make sure it doesn't happen to them. And finally there are webinar viewers attendees' questions. That's all (only without the pictures) in this week's Flat Chat Wrap. ____________________________________________________ Flat Chat is all about apartment living, especially in Australia. Find us on Facebook and Twitter and the Flat Chat website. Send comments and questions to mail@flatchat.com.au. Register to ask and answer questions about apartment living anonymously on the website . Recorded by Jimmy Thomson & Sue Williams; Transcribed by Otter.ai. Find out more about Sue Williams and Jimmy Thomson on their websites.…
In what has become an annual event here on Flat Chat, this week we were invited on to a webinar run by leading strata lawyer (and Flat Chat sponsor) David Bannerman for the Q&A session that we call Lawyer in the Hot Seat. In it we discuss such diverse issues as Lithium battery safety, a Vegepod balcony plant system that's been banned becasue it's not in keeping with the look of the building, the surprisingly widespread problem of mould and explore the vexed question of underperforming committee members. This is a long session so we have split it and will run the other half next week. There's a lot in it because, as is the nature of strata, one answer leads to a Jenga stack of other questions. You can check out the Bannerman's website f or a stack of strata-related information ____________________________________________________ Flat Chat is all about apartment living, especially in Australia. Find us on Facebook and Twitter and the Flat Chat website. Send comments and questions to mail@flatchat.com.au. Register to ask and answer questions about apartment living anonymously on the website . Recorded by Jimmy Thomson & Sue Williams; Transcribed by Otter.ai. Find out more about Sue Williams and Jimmy Thomson on their websites.…
The week’s podcast covers a wide array of topics, from your thoughts on strata committee training, and the ups and downs of the property market to common myths about strata managers. And we’ll throw in a reference to photography as well. We have a look at Amanda Farmer’s survey into strata owners’ thought on training for strata committee members. We won’t do too many spoilers but it’s worth hearing what you, the owners and tenants really want. Then we look at how volatile the building industry has become, with record number of small builders going out of business while the government’s housing targets seem to be as out of reach as ever. Then we have a chat about some of the main myths about strata managers, as highlighted by Bobby Lehane, CEO of the Pica Group. And we give a nod to a photograph that accompanied one of Sue’s stories about boarding house residents being evicted to make way for luxury houses in Sydney’s Paddington. All in this week’s Flat Chat Wrap. ____________________________________________________ Flat Chat is all about apartment living, especially in Australia. Find us on Facebook and Twitter and the Flat Chat website. Send comments and questions to mail@flatchat.com.au. Register to ask and answer questions about apartment living anonymously on the website . Recorded by Jimmy Thomson & Sue Williams; Transcribed by Otter.ai. Find out more about Sue Williams and Jimmy Thomson on their websites.…
The Wrap is back with a look at sustainable apartments and the reality of spending a bit more to make a unit cheaper to live in. The latest message is that even if the average ‘green’ unit costs $11k more, it will save you heaps of money… and salve your conscience too. We also uncover two worrying trends in one of our states where developers are loading up strata committees with their employees – ignoring any allegations of obvious conflicts of interest. Meanwhile, apartment owners seem blissfully unaware that there may be any potential problems. “They say they’re going to take care of defects and it’s in their best interests to do so, isn’t it?” Well, is it? Or are there some developers who are more concerned with profits than their reputations – since they can change their names any time they like? And finally we look at the conundrum of increased immigration putting pressure on the housing stock versus the need for skilled migrants to build more apartment blocks. Is temporary accommodation in migrant camps the answer? Make them attractive places to stay – they don’t have to be like prisons. And would it be any worse than migrants having to share a two-bed flat with a dozen other renters? That’s all in this week’s Flat Chat Wrap. ____________________________________________________ Flat Chat is all about apartment living, especially in Australia. Find us on Facebook and Twitter and the Flat Chat website. Send comments and questions to mail@flatchat.com.au. Register to ask and answer questions about apartment living anonymously on the website . Recorded by Jimmy Thomson & Sue Williams; Transcribed by Otter.ai. Find out more about Sue Williams and Jimmy Thomson on their websites.…
Did you know that getting on for 4.5 million Australians live in strata? And who do you think comprises the single largest demographic group, from singles and couples through to one-parent families? Can you even take a wild guess at the total value of strata properties in Oz, or what percentage of strata schemes don’t have strata managers? This week we take a deep dive into the latest Australasian (it includes NZ) Strata Insights report from UNSW and SCA. By the way, we got ourselves into a bit of a fankle over the Nepali language, which we mispronounced “nepawlee” rathere than “nepa-ly”, and which we partially correctly said was Nepalese – as in, the official language of Nepal. In fact, Nepali is spoken by more than up to 20 million people, mostly in Nepal and neighbouring parts of India. Smaller speech communities exist in Bhutan, Brunei, and Myanmar. And in Melbourne too, it seems. We also take a quick check on what the various political parties are offering by way of tackling the housing crisis and we talk briefly about why it’s such a surprise to see one of our apartment developer giants exposed in the news. That’s all in this week’s Flat Chat Wrap. ____________________________________________________ Flat Chat is all about apartment living, especially in Australia. Find us on Facebook and Twitter and the Flat Chat website. Send comments and questions to mail@flatchat.com.au. Register to ask and answer questions about apartment living anonymously on the website . Recorded by Jimmy Thomson & Sue Williams; Transcribed by Otter.ai. Find out more about Sue Williams and Jimmy Thomson on their websites.…
There's a lot going on in the strata sphere this week, starting with the Sydney Morning Herald's big expose on building defects. It's well worth reading but it's funny how every time a new reporter writes about this stuff, it's treated as if it's just been discovered. Speaking as people who have been on this beat for two decades, we are just glad that the issues are being aired again. Meanwhile strata managers nationally want to know why apartment buildings have been excluded from the multi-billion-dollar boost for solar panel battery storage. By the way, in the podcast we erroneously referred to solar panels, not batteries, as a sharp-eared listener has pointed out. And we dig into the three-way fight over commission payments between owners (in the shape of the Owners Corporation Network) plus the Australian Consumers Insurance Lobby (ACIL), strata managers, and strata insurers. That's all in this week's Flat Chat Wrap. ____________________________________________________ Flat Chat is all about apartment living, especially in Australia. Find us on Facebook and Twitter and the Flat Chat website. Send comments and questions to mail@flatchat.com.au. Register to ask and answer questions about apartment living anonymously on the website . Recorded by Jimmy Thomson & Sue Williams; Transcribed by Otter.ai. Find out more about Sue Williams and Jimmy Thomson on their websites.…
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We’d love to ignore the election but we can’t, so this week we look at what our nation’s political parties are offering apartment buyers and renters as we hurtle towards polling day. Everybody agrees we need more housing – and that means more apartments – but the policies differ, including one that an economist has dubbed “the worst economic policy of the 21st century.” And we look at Victoria where the state government is pushing through a no-nimby policy to force councils to accept low-rise apartment blocks. We have a chat about Strata Community Association, the strata managers' peak body's call for national protection for apartment owners from defective buildings. And we look why rents of apartments are rising faster than rents of houses, and where this is happening, including one holiday letting hotspot that’s been hit by a 60-night a year limit. That’s all in this week’s Flat Chat Wrap. ____________________________________________________ Flat Chat is all about apartment living, especially in Australia. Find us on Facebook and Twitter and the Flat Chat website. Send comments and questions to mail@flatchat.com.au. Register to ask and answer questions about apartment living anonymously on the website . Recorded by Jimmy Thomson & Sue Williams; Transcribed by Otter.ai. Find out more about Sue Williams and Jimmy Thomson on their websites.…
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We are getting into two of the topics that cause most angst in apartment living, this week: pets and buying property. Firstly, we take a spin around the question of landlords in NSW no longer being able to ban renters’ pets for no good reason – and how that will affect the more than 50 per cent of apartment residents who are tenants. This is a question I asked in the Sydney Morning Herald : Will our apartment blocks suddenly be awash with furry friends? Or will property investors – confronted by the other regulation changes, both recent and impending – decide “stuff this for a game of Monopoly” and sell up or switch to Airbnb and its ilk? Then we look at a story Sue wrote for Domain (also in the SMH) about how she went looking to find a new flat for a temporarily overseas friend with the instruction to spend up $1million. What’s it like flat hunting for a friend, knowing that if you have made the wrong suggestion that’s a million bucks worth of misery for them and you? That’s all in this week’s Flat Chat Wrap? ____________________________________________________ Flat Chat is all about apartment living, especially in Australia. Find us on Facebook and Twitter and the Flat Chat website. Send comments and questions to mail@flatchat.com.au. Register to ask and answer questions about apartment living anonymously on the website . Recorded by Jimmy Thomson & Sue Williams; Transcribed by Otter.ai. Find out more about Sue Williams and Jimmy Thomson on their websites.…
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Last week we said that Strata Community Association NSW - the states' strata managers' professional body - was in disarray. Objecting to that negative characterisation, NSW President Robert Anderson agreed to come on to the podcast and answer a few questions. We had no shortage of those. For instance, we asked what the changes at SCA-NSW are. Has SCA-NSW been getting it wrong? Is there a new philosophy or culture, following changes on the SCA-NSW board? Are the changes in the standard agency agreement a recognition that there was something wrong with the previous much maligned version or is it just to comply with changes in legislation? What does SCA-NSW have to do to regain owners’ trust? What about training for committee members? Who should do it: SCA, the Owners Corporation Network (OCN) or Fair Trading? And finally, will the SCA continue to claim that it represents owners? It's a slightly longer than usual session and the sound quality is OK but, thanks to the interview being conducted over Zoom, not up to our usual tip-top standards. Enjoy. ____________________________________________________ Flat Chat is all about apartment living, especially in Australia. Find us on Facebook and Twitter and the Flat Chat website. Send comments and questions to mail@flatchat.com.au. Register to ask and answer questions about apartment living anonymously on the website . Recorded by Jimmy Thomson & Sue Williams; Transcribed by Otter.ai. Find out more about Sue Williams and Jimmy Thomson on their websites.…
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This week we look back at what has been described by some lawyers as one of the most significant legal decisions of the 21st Century – right up there with Donald Trump’s court losses. We are talking about the “Jo Cooper” decision five years ago which said strata schemes couldn’t impose blanket bans on pets. So many strata schemes have pets these days that it feels like dog and cat ownership is almost compulsory – and no, the sky hasn’t fallen in and so far, no frail or elderly person has been savaged to death by marauding chihuahuas. We will also be looking at how the state government is claiming that its moves to ban rent bidding have meant rents have gone down. And hearing why they are likely to start rising even faster. And we will be answering a question that was asked on radio on James Valentines Afternoons on Tuesday ( click here and whizz forward to 1h 35mins) – do you need to have a second, separate laundry sink when you move your washing machine and drier into your renovated kitchen? That’s all in this week’s Flat Chat Wrap. ____________________________________________________ Flat Chat is all about apartment living, especially in Australia. Find us on Facebook and Twitter and the Flat Chat website. Send comments and questions to mail@flatchat.com.au. Register to ask and answer questions about apartment living anonymously on the website . Recorded by Jimmy Thomson & Sue Williams; Transcribed by Otter.ai. Find out more about Sue Williams and Jimmy Thomson on their websites.…
The long-awaited report into what has become known as the Netstrata Scandal came out last week – too late for the podcast – so we bring it to you in all its glory this week. Fair Trading NSW have, unusually for them, hopped in with a fairly strident comment and Netstrata has responded with vehement denials of wrong-doing and assurances that anything than needed fixing has been fixed. You can find our report on the McGrathNicol findings HERE , the McGrathNicol report HERE , Fair Trading’s response HERE , and the Netstrata reaction HERE . So what’s the truth? We have had the dubious pleasure of owning in a strata scheme managed by Netstrata and seeing the way they work at close hand. What are they really like? Listen to this week’s Flat Chat Wrap to find out. ____________________________________________________ Flat Chat is all about apartment living, especially in Australia. Find us on Facebook and Twitter and the Flat Chat website. Send comments and questions to mail@flatchat.com.au. Register to ask and answer questions about apartment living anonymously on the website . Recorded by Jimmy Thomson & Sue Williams; Transcribed by Otter.ai. Find out more about Sue Williams and Jimmy Thomson on their websites.…
This week’s podcast looks at the renewed concern about the effect of short-term holiday lets on affordable housing, following City of Sydney’s request to the state government to change the laws to curb Airbnb and its ilk. Last week CoS said about 1000 homes would come back into the residential rental market in central Sydney alone if the government put limits on commercial STHL operators. And we hear rumours that a Victoria-style tax is being considered, with the proceeds going to build new homes. And can we trust an Airbnb survey that says people who can let their homes all year would just shutter them, rather than return them to the residential market? And speaking of new homes, the government has fast-tracked planning approval for a number of high-rise blocks that will house 8000 families. But are they building communities? By the way, the news about the Netstrata report came in after we had recorded the podcast so we will definitely pick that up next week. ____________________________________________________ Flat Chat is all about apartment living, especially in Australia. Find us on Facebook and Twitter and the Flat Chat website. Send comments and questions to mail@flatchat.com.au. Register to ask and answer questions about apartment living anonymously on the website . Recorded by Jimmy Thomson & Sue Williams; Transcribed by Otter.ai. Find out more about Sue Williams and Jimmy Thomson on their websites.…
The podcast this week is almost entirely taken up with the new laws that passed the other day in the NSW parliament. We won’t see most of them kick in until later in the year, but the effects could be immediate. Dodgy contracts that could see off-the-plan sales rescinded might be being rewritten as we speak. Building managers and strata committee chairs might well be asking what they have to change to fulfil requirements to act in the best interests of strata schemes. Developers’ low-ball estimates of levies for new blocks might be getting pumped up a little if a $55k fine could be imposed for deliberately underquoting. But the one unanswered question – in the podcast, at least – is what form the Strata Taskforce is going to take and how it will operate. Such are the vagaries of online publishing that we answered that question in this story , after we had switched off the mikes. But we can have a chat about that next week. And finally, we welcome our new sponsors Strata Community Insurance to the Flat Chat fold. Insurance is all about risk, but we reckon SCInsurance is a safe bet. ____________________________________________________ Flat Chat is all about apartment living, especially in Australia. Find us on Facebook and Twitter and the Flat Chat website. Send comments and questions to mail@flatchat.com.au. Register to ask and answer questions about apartment living anonymously on the website . Recorded by Jimmy Thomson & Sue Williams; Transcribed by Otter.ai. Find out more about Sue Williams and Jimmy Thomson on their websites.…
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In this week’s podcast we wonder whether the announcement of fines for strata managers who don’t reveal the various deals and relationships they have with developers and service providers signals a sea change in how NSW Fair Trading regards strata professionals who play fast and loose with the facts. Quite clearly, this is a response to the revelations last year about how Netstrata allegedly hid insurance commissions from its clients. But is it enough? Netstrata is not the biggest strata management company involved in this, nor, in all likelihood, will it be the worst offender. Will we ever find out? Manwhile, strata schemes should not be mistaken in thinking it’s your strata manager – the one who turns up at your AGM who will be fined. This is about the companies, large and small, whose culture has evolved from support and service to profits at all costs. Your strata manager is only doing what their job description dictates. Also in the pod, we look at a new drive to build homes specifically for essential service providers like nurses, cops and firies. We discuss the likely impact of the new releases of designs from the NSW pattern book for low-density apartment blocks. And we mull over what should be done about a spare chunk of common property that has been annexed by an enterprising owner. That’s all in this week’s Flat Chat Wrap. ____________________________________________________ Flat Chat is all about apartment living, especially in Australia. Find us on Facebook and Twitter and the Flat Chat website. Send comments and questions to mail@flatchat.com.au. Register to ask and answer questions about apartment living anonymously on the website . Recorded by Jimmy Thomson & Sue Williams; Transcribed by Otter.ai. Find out more about Sue Williams and Jimmy Thomson on their websites.…
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In this week’s podcast we ask why it is that, while the so-called Arrow decision has established that pre-sale strata contracts are invalid, some developers can get away with signing them. As raised by our friend Francesco Andreone at GoStrata , what needs to be done to the laws to stop this pernicious exploitation of strata owners’ lack of knowledge and experience? And why do we apartment owners have to risk our money in taking developers to court to re-litigate these cases every time they turn up. On a lighter note, we ask how over-50s would cope with having to share homes again. Sure it would help with loneliness and isolation, as well as being financially prudent. But what would other Boomers' behaviour do that drove you mad? And finally, Flat Chat has a new media outlet and a whole new readership (we hope) who have missed out on our 20 years of fighting the good fight for strata owners and residents. That’s all in this week’s Flat Chat Wrap. ____________________________________________________ Flat Chat is all about apartment living, especially in Australia. Find us on Facebook and Twitter and the Flat Chat website. Send comments and questions to mail@flatchat.com.au. Register to ask and answer questions about apartment living anonymously on the website . Recorded by Jimmy Thomson & Sue Williams; Transcribed by Otter.ai. Find out more about Sue Williams and Jimmy Thomson on their websites.…
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It seems strata may have a new pantomime villain (like we need one). This week we look at multi-millionaire developer of fancy pants apartment blocks Tim Gurner. He once shocked an economic conference by saying the country needs 40-50 per cent unemployment. If that wasn’t bad enough it’s alleged he was the first public figure to draw parallels between young people eating smashed avocado and not being able to afford to buy a home. Now this Melbourne developer of luxury apartments, and some of his customers, are in conflict as defects start to surface in his uber-fancy St Moritz block in the Victorian capital. It’s not so much how the mighty have fallen (because he hasn’t) as how the prices have fallen, and in a rising market. But before that, we look at the new regulations for strata managers that come in nest week (Feb3) and wonder how much difference they will really make. And finally, Jimmy comes up with his radical plan to build more affordable apartments, saying that affordable luxury is impossible but liveable affordability may be the way forward If you can tolerate a bit of noise from your neighbours, and one lift instead of two, surely apartment blocks could be built more cheaply without the risk of them falling down. That’s all in the Flat Chat Wrap. ____________________________________________________ Flat Chat is all about apartment living, especially in Australia. Find us on Facebook and Twitter and the Flat Chat website. Send comments and questions to mail@flatchat.com.au. Register to ask and answer questions about apartment living anonymously on the website . Recorded by Jimmy Thomson & Sue Williams; Transcribed by Otter.ai. Find out more about Sue Williams and Jimmy Thomson on their websites.…
With half of Australia still in holiday or hangover mode, and half of Sydney stuck on a railway platform somewhere, this is a short and (we hope) sweet Flat Chat Wrap podcast this week. First, we look at a new trend in affordable and comfortable co-living, which already exists in two completed blocks in Sydney, with another one on the way. Then there’s the revelation that the price gap between houses and apartment narrowing dramatically, as houses get a bit cheaper and apartments get dearer. And finally there’s news of a new and possibly trend-setting addition to a planned apartment block which will doubtless get tongues and tails wagging with its direct appeal to dog owners. That’s all in this week’s Flat Chat Wrap. ____________________________________________________ Flat Chat is all about apartment living, especially in Australia. Find us on Facebook and Twitter and the Flat Chat website. Send comments and questions to mail@flatchat.com.au. Register to ask and answer questions about apartment living anonymously on the website . Recorded by Jimmy Thomson & Sue Williams; Transcribed by Otter.ai. Find out more about Sue Williams and Jimmy Thomson on their websites.…
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We are back in the saddle for the new year with the news that the NSW government has come up with a new way of tackling the bureaucracy and red tape that’s holding back housing construction – by adding what looks like another level of bureaucracy and red tape. To be fair, the intentions are good. Maybe more really is less, and the new Housing Delivery Authority will accelerate the construction of “State Significant Developments”, especially in areas ripe for development but where Nimbys rule the roost. We shall see. However, one of the more remarkable achievements around this is that the government has managed to announce this without even mentioning one significant and controversial word. Also we hear about the apartment residents who turned their harbour view flat into a huge, expensive New Years Eve event venue … only it wasn’t their flat. And we point the fingers at the Sydney residents who have taken Nimbyism to a new low – kicking locals who are already down and permanently out. That’s all in this week’s Flat Chat Wrap. ____________________________________________________ Flat Chat is all about apartment living, especially in Australia. Find us on Facebook and Twitter and the Flat Chat website. Send comments and questions to mail@flatchat.com.au. Register to ask and answer questions about apartment living anonymously on the website . Recorded by Jimmy Thomson & Sue Williams; Transcribed by Otter.ai. Find out more about Sue Williams and Jimmy Thomson on their websites.…
Looking forward to 2025 involves a certain amount of looking back. So we wonder this week what will happen, if anything, as a result of the long-delayed outcomes of investigations into Netstrata in particular or strata management in general. And we look at the proposed new strata laws for NSW. Jimmy speculated that the least likely to make it all the way is the plan to bring strata contracts under Australian Consumer law. Why? Because the parties with the most to lose – Strata Community Australia and the NSW Attorney General’s office – are pretty powerful voices. And we look at our poll on what Flat Chat readers like most about the proposed changes. There’s a clear split between laws that affect existing owners and buyers but there’s one proposal that will affect everyone in strata that stands out from the crowd. That’s all in this week’s and 2024’s final Flat Chat Wrap ____________________________________________________ Flat Chat is all about apartment living, especially in Australia. Find us on Facebook and Twitter and the Flat Chat website. Send comments and questions to mail@flatchat.com.au. Register to ask and answer questions about apartment living anonymously on the website . Recorded by Jimmy Thomson & Sue Williams; Transcribed by Otter.ai. Find out more about Sue Williams and Jimmy Thomson on their websites.…
From the scandals around Netstrata - and the harsh scrutiny all strata managers have faced as a consequence - to the departure of Building Commissioner David Chandler, 2024 was a huge year in strata. We look at those events as well as the roller-coaster rides for apartment owner clients of two now notorious strata managers who have found it just too easy to convince NCAT members to do exactly what they want, rather than what apartment owners need. In fact, we ask the question, is the NCAT tribunal so ill-equipped to deal with strata issues that it is actively undermining Fair Trading's efforts to improve public confidence in apartment living. And finally, we highlight a new build-to-rent development in the heart of Sydney which will allow long leases and pets, but remove toxic strata committees, rampant rent increases and the threat of Airbnb displacing residential renters. Ooops! In the podcast we said we were going to mention two ambushes in the Four Corners TV episode that brought Netstrata to book. We talked about Stephen Brell but forgot to mention former Strata Commissioner John Minns. However, we covered him in detail last week , so you're not really missing out. ____________________________________________________ Flat Chat is all about apartment living, especially in Australia. Find us on Facebook and Twitter and the Flat Chat website. Send comments and questions to mail@flatchat.com.au. Register to ask and answer questions about apartment living anonymously on the website . Recorded by Jimmy Thomson & Sue Williams; Transcribed by Otter.ai. Find out more about Sue Williams and Jimmy Thomson on their websites.…
This week we say farewell to former Strata Commissioner John Minns who has decided to quit, despite a months-long inquiry into allegations of conflict of interest finding nothing untoward. Jimmy had a long chat with him (off air) which he relates in the podcast, covering his frustrations during his tenure and his fears for the future – not least who will take over his role. The we turn our sights on NCAT – the NSW Tribunal which seems to be doing more to undermine efforts to build confidence in strata than all the dodgy developers and suspect strata managers combined. Can we trust a body that has untrained Members making decisions about our lives when many of them clearly don’t know or care about strata? Separate to the point of being in opposition to Fair Trading, the whole Tribunal system is clogged with regurgitated cases that could and should have been dealt with at the first time of asking. Justice delayed is justice denied – and that applies in strata too. And finally it’s time to inject some pre-festive cheer with a story of owners who would rather share their new apartment block with low-income tenants, than live in an ivory tower. ____________________________________________________ Flat Chat is all about apartment living, especially in Australia. Find us on Facebook and Twitter and the Flat Chat website. Send comments and questions to mail@flatchat.com.au. Register to ask and answer questions about apartment living anonymously on the website . Recorded by Jimmy Thomson & Sue Williams; Transcribed by Otter.ai. Find out more about Sue Williams and Jimmy Thomson on their websites.…
Our deadlines meant we missed the chance to talk about the new strata laws proposed for NSW in last week’s podcast but that has given us time to think about the proposals and what they mean. For instance, is compulsory training of strata committee members a good or bad thing? Will fear of having sales contracts rescinded deter developers from using embedded networks to save money and cheat their apartment buyers? Will heavy fines stop them from underestimating levies to make their apartment sales unrealistically attractive? Will coming under Australian consumer law mean the end of one-sided strata manager contracts? We can only touch on a few aspects of the proposed new laws but you can find out more about them HERE … after you have listened to this week’s podcast, of course. ____________________________________________________ Flat Chat is all about apartment living, especially in Australia. Find us on Facebook and Twitter and the Flat Chat website. Send comments and questions to mail@flatchat.com.au. Register to ask and answer questions about apartment living anonymously on the website . Recorded by Jimmy Thomson & Sue Williams; Transcribed by Otter.ai. Find out more about Sue Williams and Jimmy Thomson on their websites.…
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1 Triple threat: Guide gaps, dodgy contracts and rotting blocks 25:03
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나중에 재생 나중에 재생 리스트 좋아요 좋아요Three big stories get most of our attention in this week’s podcast. Firstly there’s the publication of the new Guide to Strata Living, which earns some praise, but a few brickbats from JimmyT. You can judge for yourself HERE, where there are also links to the actual guide for you to download. Then there’s the recent attack on unfair strata management contracts by eminent construction lawyer Bronwyn Weir. And, once you’ve listen to the podcast, you might want to read more about it HERE and HERE (with links to the original ABC news story). Two years ago, Jimmy wrote that apartment blocks in Victoria were rotting from the inside. Now a report by the strata government’s Cladding Safety Victoria has confirmed that half the buildings they inspected were doing exactly that. You can read about it HERE . And finally, would you leave a spare key with someone, in case of emergencies? Should it be compulsory? That’s all in the Flat Chat Wrap. ____________________________________________________ Flat Chat is all about apartment living, especially in Australia. Find us on Facebook and Twitter and the Flat Chat website. Send comments and questions to mail@flatchat.com.au. Register to ask and answer questions about apartment living anonymously on the website . Recorded by Jimmy Thomson & Sue Williams; Transcribed by Otter.ai. Find out more about Sue Williams and Jimmy Thomson on their websites.…
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We’ve been catching up with all the strata stories that emerged while we were away – and there’s a lot of them, covering just about every aspect of apartment living. The plan to boost Sydney’s night time economy with 24/7 bar openings has alarmed well-heeled resident so Circular Quay (according to this video on the Sydney Morning Herald website). And there’s more angst over noisy gyms which we first highlighted in this podcast and Sue’s SMH story before we left for Europe. We discuss why strata schemes are way behind free-standing homes when it comes to installing solar, prompted by this story . Does it have something to do with embedded networks and devious developers? We look at a renewed push to wash away outdated and anti-sustainability by-laws that forbid drying laundry on balconies. And we wonder if councils could be doing more to encourage the inclusion of creative spaces in new apartment blocks, following this report . That’s all in this week’s Flat Chat Wrap. ____________________________________________________ Flat Chat is all about apartment living, especially in Australia. Find us on Facebook and Twitter and the Flat Chat website. Send comments and questions to mail@flatchat.com.au. Register to ask and answer questions about apartment living anonymously on the website . Recorded by Jimmy Thomson & Sue Williams; Transcribed by Otter.ai. Find out more about Sue Williams and Jimmy Thomson on their websites.…
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Can you imagine paying $30,000 a night for a pad in London? Yes, that’s thirty thousand dollars, in case you thought it was a misprint. And this is in a city that has its share of homelessness and has had to introduce a 90-night limit on short-term holiday lets to combat the drain on residential properties caused by platforms like Airbnb and their ilk. Also in Britain, a government survey has revealed how many previously unidentified apartment blocks still have potentially fatal flammable cladding, more than seven years after the Grenfell disaster. Meanwhile the contrast in Australian political approaches to the housing shortage – lack of supply or excess of demand – was brought into stark relief by the result of the US presidential election. One side said it was a failure of investment, the other that it was caused by immigrants. Spoiler alert: Donald Trump will be back in the White House until J D Vance slips an overdose of moonshine and opiates into his diet Coke then announces he was secretly a liberal all this time. Seriously though, as we discover, even a socialist republic has trouble building apartments ordinary people can afford (unless you’re Aussie – then they’re a bargain). This week’s podcast is the last to be recorded on our travels and is a bit shorter than usual, not least because we were cramming the last of our journalistic tasks in between trying to make the most of our dwindling days in France. Next week we’ll be back to whatever passes for normal in strata. ____________________________________________________ Flat Chat is all about apartment living, especially in Australia. Find us on Facebook and Twitter and the Flat Chat website. Send comments and questions to mail@flatchat.com.au. Register to ask and answer questions about apartment living anonymously on the website . Recorded by Jimmy Thomson & Sue Williams; Transcribed by Otter.ai. Find out more about Sue Williams and Jimmy Thomson on their websites.…
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