The issue we raised last week rumbles on with experienced waterproofers claiming they are being driven out of the industry in NSW while engineers and builders line up to take sides.
We can see why there was a need to tighten the regulations but if it ends up with competent operators being forced out of the industry, leading to strata schemes not being able to fix their common property or, even worse, going to the "dark side" to get things done, what's really been gained?
And we take a look at Queensland property prices. Why have they been soaring when most other states are falling? Is there room for more growth? Or has the bubble burst?
And, while we're at it, we spell out what we'd be looking for in a Queensland apartment, with one eye on the state's cockamamie management contracts, if we were thinking of investing there.
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Recorded by Jimmy Thomson & Sue Williams; Transcribed by Otter.ai.
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