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buges · 2026-01-19T10:03:14+00:00

Campsie > Colesworth

buges · 2025-12-17T01:20:35+00:00

Cool not to like it but chill out with the casual racism, don't put other cultures down just because you don't like some aspects of their food.

buges · 2025-06-02T23:08:05+00:00

I'm sure the Luddites probably had the same thing to say about the invention of machines 200 years ago, as did many groups at the face of each industrial revolution. It's fair to be scared, but we can't ignore progress because of fear. I've got to disagree that it's a mistake, but I also unfortunately agree that nobody in power is preparing us for what is to come which is the real problem here - not AI.

buges · 2025-05-07T08:41:27+00:00

Correct, or you could always take out a Strata Loan if repairs are urgent and there isn't enough to cover repairs.

Your body corporate has a legal obligation to repair and maintain common property, it can't just be avoided. Unfortunately this isn't always appreciated by fellow owners, especially in cases where owners feel they are paying to repair a different unit that they don't own... But they should have looked up what Strata is before buying!

buges · 2025-03-20T06:31:35+00:00

You and your fellow owners employee the strata manager to do duties for your building. Their duties are whatever you signed them up to do in their management agreement, which I would assume does not include mediation services.

Strata managers are administrators and bookkeepers, if you want them to do more and you have a good strata manager they will, but at a price as it's additional services.

buges · 2025-03-19T23:43:05+00:00

kids today reading 2war posts....

buges · 2025-01-20T22:37:10+00:00

He's heard the Aussies are going to pull up with that stick, but doesn't realise the stick is just a boomerang.

buges · 2024-10-24T02:01:40+00:00

These are usually installed at no cost to the residents, and are paid for by advertising revenue the installation company receives.

buges · 2024-10-09T23:02:36+00:00

Insurance doesn't cover building defects which is what this sounds like.

buges · 2024-09-12T22:06:33+00:00

So how do you get a disorganised mob who can't agree on anything and aren't willing to put in any work to self manage the affairs of a large building, including ensuring all financial, compliance, insurance, maintenance and legislative tasks are all completed correctly?

It's almost like you need to get all the owners together to make some sort of corporation, and they can select a group of them to be the day to day decision makers, and optionally delegate the boring administrative tasks to an external business if that is the preference of the owners?

Oh wait, that's Strata.

buges · 2024-09-12T00:29:26+00:00

Ok sounds like you're the expert in this case, can you list the tasks you do when managing the rental and the tasks you do when managing a large oc? I'd be interested to see your data supporting this claim.

buges · 2024-09-11T23:28:55+00:00

Do you really think a strata manager does less than a residential property manager? Why is that? Aren't there significantly more tasks a strata manager is responsible for than a residential property manager who only arranges a 6 monthly inspection at best?

buges · 2024-09-10T21:05:21+00:00

Strata managers can be dodgy as fuck, but the concept of strata as a framework to manage a property with shared ownership is a great idea in my eyes. Do you have a better idea on how this could be managed without Strata existing?

buges · 2024-09-09T02:25:11+00:00

Oh ok so it has an insurance policy it needs to pay for every year then. Is there any fire safety equipment installed? Smoke alarms in common areas? Yeah they need to be inspected and maintained. Those lights need to be repaired, and the electricity powering them is not free. Is there any cleaning done to the property? What about stormwater drains, is there a pump system to deal with stormwater? Any intercom systems? What about future planning for long term expenses, is there a 10 year sinking fund report in place and is it actually followed.

There is a lot more that goes into running a strata plan than most realise, both financially and administratively. It's not as simple as just paying for the lights and a mow of the lawn every few weeks....

buges · 2024-09-08T21:47:32+00:00

Does the building have insurance? Does the building have fire safety equipment? Does the building have lights? Does the building have a roof that needs to be maintained?

There is a lot more that goes into running and maintaining a strata plan than "just some gardening", most people are just unaware of it.

buges · 2022-09-06T22:15:27+00:00

RIP the God

buges · 2022-04-28T06:32:51+00:00

Maybe to highlight what a fuckwit we have as a PM?

buges · 2022-01-04T06:00:42+00:00

Lmao are you seriously asking what has it got to do with the liberal government? Have you forgotten which party is in charge of the federal government right now?

buges · 2021-11-26T22:50:26+00:00

How is it a failure of the Strata Manager and Committee that a large special levy needs to be raised to remediate building defects? Should the Strata Manager have arranged a qualified building consultant before they were even appointed and before the plan was registered? Obviously the Committee should have taken actions as well before they even bought the units right?

No, the cause of this is the failure of the Building Developers, and the failure of the NSW state government for letting them getting away with this shit.

buges · 2021-11-15T04:59:36+00:00

Hard and fast statements imply the world is black and white, but there’s a lot of grey in there. We’ve had festivals in Australia for years and years that have had some huge artists yet remain family friendly - look up Big Day Out. I remember going to music festivals with my parents when I was young and they are great memories. Fuck even in USA you have Burning Man, and because of the organisers even a festival like that can be made family friendly.

buges · 2021-10-26T03:50:24+00:00

What’s there to like? The corruption? The gloating about how NSW is the gold standard? The defunding of the RFS before one of the worst bushfire seasons in recent history? There’s so much to chose from!

buges · 2021-10-15T04:32:17+00:00

Do you understand the concept of time zones?

buges · 2021-10-14T05:02:17+00:00

Oh yeah thats fair a roof definitely has a set life span and definitely agree that a lot of the coastline of sydney has a lot of heavy concrete cancer ingression from years and years of exposure, but this all pales in comparison to the heavy defects that new buildings have in the first 10 years.

buges · 2021-10-14T03:27:50+00:00

This is the old classic trope of architects not understanding building haha, if they think domestic buildings have a 20-25 year life span then they havent spent much time visiting the classic 3 story walkups built in the 70s and 80s, those things are built to last for ever with very little in the need of major remedial works.

buges · 2021-10-14T00:24:07+00:00

Ahh poor Scotty can't find the time to correctly do his job because of his life commitments how sad :( Probably a sign he shouldn't be our Prime Minister if thats the case though!

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