All Episodes

Flat Chat Wrap #42 – Strata chatting, straight out of the box

PODCAST: Stratabox and building communities through communication

Flat Chat Wrap #41 – The future of apartments … bees vs locusts

PODCAST: The buzz on strata – it’s locusts V bees

Flat Chat Wrap #40 – the end of parking as we know it

PODCAST: The death of parking and student flats for grown-ups

Flat Chat Wrap #39 – Loopholes and pitfalls in new Airbnb regs

PODCAST: Loopholes and pitfalls in new holiday letting rules

Flat Chat Wrap #38 – Mediation, revolution and crazy planning objections

PODCAST: Mediation, revolution and crazy Nimby objections

Flat Chat Wrap #37 – Defects loans, Airbnb rules and sex in the spa

PODCAST: Defect loans, Airbnb rules and sneaky sex in the spa

Flat Chat Wrap #36 – From block parties to hijacked high-rises

PODCAST: From block parties to hijacked high-rises

Flat Chat Wrap #35 – Apartments go to the movies … and see more than they should

PODCAST: When a look through a window lingers longer than it should

Flat Chat Wrap #34 – Tall storeys: TV dramas set in apartment blocks

LISTEN: TV dramas set in apartment blocks

Flat Chat Wrap #33 – Commercial tenants, caretakers versus Airbnb, and wandering pot plants

PODCAST: Space invaders, Airbnb v caretakers and purloined pot plants

Time we had a Tripadvisor for unit block builders?

Flat Chat Wrap #32 – Time we had a star rating for the best and worst developers and builders

PODCAST: A star rating system for developers, builders … and residents

Flat Chat Wrap #31 – Tip of the defects iceberg and why it’s such a massive problem

PODCAST: When defect disaster warnings were covered up

Flat Chat Wrap #30 – Three kinds of insurance and a few facts that will shock you

Podcast: Everything you never knew about strata insurance

Flat Chat Wrap #29 – the great Mascot Tower giveaway … and what it means about cladding

PODCAST: Mascot Tower sinking but residents kept afloat by loans

Flat Chat Wrap #28 – Residents out on the street as another Faulty Tower crumbles

PODCAST: Mascot Tower crisis brings defects closer to home

Flat Chat Wrap #27 – Ghost towers, cladding costs and power games

Podcast: Ghost flats a huge tax break … with added James Valentine

Reasons why you should – and shouldn’t – get elected to your committee

PODCAST: Apartment living in the new Russia … and a $120K email

Flat Chat Wrap #26 – From Russia with love and the $120k insulting email

Flat Chat Wrap #25 – Working out what to do and what you need in your gym

PODCAST: Working out how to make the most of your unit block gym

Flat Chat Wrap #24: Silly by-laws to orgies – a strata manager speaks

PODCAST: Silly by-laws to sex orgies – a strata manager reveals all

Flat Chat Wrap #23 – Airbnb code of conduct, developers go “crowd” and a horse in a townhouse (???)

Podcast: Angst as Airbnb code of conduct flagged

Flat Chat Wrap #22 – New Vic laws, fire sprinklers, electric cars, greyhounds in flats and BBQs

Podcast: Why strata law changes are such a painfully long time coming

Flat Chat Wrap #21: Property prices panic and the latest developer rort

Podcast: Is it time to panic over plummeting property prices?

Flat Chat Wrap #20 – New minister, good and bad laws, and the pet loophole

Podcast – Buy a $1.2m penthouse on the Minister’s home turf

Flat Chat Wrap #19: Shoes in lobbies and snooping neighbours

Flat Chat Wrap #18 – the joys of apartment living (no, really!)

Podcast: The joys of apartment living (no … really!)

Flat Chat Wrap #17 – Promises, promises … what the pollies are offering the strata voters of NSW

Podcast: What the pollies are promising the strata voters of NSW

Flat Chat Wrap #16 – Election fever mounts as the shadow minister speaks

Podcast: Talking to the woman who could be our next strata minister

Flat Chat Wrap #15 – Talking the politics of Airbnb and cladding fears with the OCN

Podcast: The link between holiday lets and high rise cladding fires

Flat Chat Wrap #14 – Three rants and why we’ll never get a Royal Commission

Podcast: Why we’ll never get a Royal Commission into building defects

On TV pouring cold water on the flammable cladding controversy

Flat Chat Wrap #13 – On air with James Valentine and more from Alex Greenwich

Podcast: On radio with James Valentine and more from Alex Greenwich

Flat Chat Wrap #12 – The ups and downs of apartment living with Sydney MP Alex Greenwich

Podcast: Parliamentary panic behind short-term letting U-turn

Flat Chat Wrap #11 – Taking your calls on (very) early morning ABC radio

Podcast: Chatting flats with “mighty” Rod Quinn

Podcast: On air with Josh Zepps and Part 2 of the strata disaster

Podcast: Inside a strata disaster … a pet ban backfires

Podcast: The truth about the whole defects disaster

Flat Chat Wrap #8 – The crumbling Opal Tower and the whole defects disaster

Podcast: On TV talking cracks in the Opal

On TV talking cracks in the Opal

Podcast: The Wrap … all the way from Cambodia

Flat Chat Wrap #7 – Are your levies too high

Flat Chat Wrap #6 – Renovations and recalcitrant owners … with James Valentine

Podcast 5 – parking, pet names & Airbnb hosting

Flat Chat Wrap #4 – Homeless on common property & build-to-rent in the USA

Podcast: Ep 3 of the Wrap looks at buying and selling

Flat Chat Wrap #3 – best and worst times to buy, bullied by by-laws & lawn parking

Roundup and the Wrap podcast – all you need in one place

Flat Chat Wrap #2 – Noise, electric cars, budget tourism and canning committee members

Jimmy and James discuss the new bans on no-pets by-laws

The end of no-pet by-laws on ABC radio

The Wrap – Now you can listen to Flat Chat too

Flat Chat Wrap #1 – pet bans, bad by-laws, crazy neighbours and Airbnb laws

Dardanelle Towers – Episode 2 – Gimme Shelter

Dardanelle Towers: Episode 1 – The Naked Truth

Talking strata (at last) on Studio 10

Jimmy and James on kids playing, window rebels … and barbecues

Talking Tunnels on Ten

First impressions: Fines for unpaid levies and reno delays

It’s Byron Airbn-Bay as holiday town “gutted” by online lets

Floating floors and renos

Madecomfy spruiks Airbnb profits on ABC radio

Talking Kings Cross on ABC radio Breakfast

New novel … and the old garden land-grab trick

Jon Faine skewers Airbnb as ‘parasites and predators’

Off to Vietnam … with a confession

Should my strata committee speak for me?

James Valentine – Airbnb discussion document