Apartment Living

APARTMENT LIVING – DESCRIBED BY ‘THE AGE’ AS “the Lonely Planet for apartments’ IS NOW OUT OF PRINT BUT WE ARE PLANNING TO UPDATE THE CONTENTS AND MAKE THE CHAPTERS INDIVIDUALLY AVAILABLE IN pdf FORM FROM THE NEW FLAT CHAT DEDICATED WEBSITE (click here).

Apartment Living was written by my partner Sue Williams and me in response to the fairly troubled times we faced when we first moved into a new apartment block in Sydney.

We ran the whole gamut of issues, from a dodgy Executive Committee the chair of which was a little too autocratic and close to the developers for comfort, to a building manager – also employed by the developers – who was not only utterly incompetent but ran nasty little vendettas against any residents who dared to criticise the way the building was being run.

It took a group of committed owners nine months to resolve this scandalous situation, sack the original EC and the building manager and get things running smoothly (for which I can take no credit).

Both being writers, our instinctive response was to get it down on paper and make some of the stuff that we’d discovered available to others. We also tried to make the book as entertaining and informative as we could.

It was published by ABC Books in June 2004 and one reviewer for The Age in Melbourne called it “The Lonely Planet for apartments” which was just about the feel we were looking for.

Check on the Flat Chat website to see when the PDF version of Apartment Living will be available.