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Sydney resident fed-up over ‘explicit' 2am noises from neighbour
Sydney resident fed-up over ‘explicit' 2am noises from neighbour

News.com.au

time6 hours ago

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Sydney resident fed-up over ‘explicit' 2am noises from neighbour

A resident in a Sydney apartment says he's fed up after enduring months of 'consistent' loud music, instrument playing and X-rated noises coming from his neighbour's flat beneath him. The man, who took to Reddit to vent, has asked for advice about how to deal with the situation, where he claims he and his partner are subjected to the loud noises between 11pm and 2am. 'Yes, I know it's apartments! You will get noise here and there, and for the most part, I can tolerate it … up until 10pm or so,' he wrote to the forum. He then shared a video he recorded that captured one of the 'songs' his neighbour was singing recently. In the clip, a man is heard singing 'F**k, f**k, f**k,' repeatedly to the sound of what appears to be a guitar background track. He believes the poster has recently gone through a breakup with his girlfriend. Deciding to take matters into his own hands, he attempted to approach the apartment multiple times around midnight on workdays to ask about the singing and instruments. 'Usually (I got) no response or a 'f**k off' shouted from wherever he is,' he said. He also said another neighbour had tried a similar approach and even 'banged on his door' with little success. The Redditor claimed this was a consistent issue, but only provided video evidence of this one occasion. Lawyer weighs in Strata lawyer, Amanda Farmer, told that the resident should contact the strata manager (if there is one) or find out who the secretary of the strata committee is. 'This noisy neighbour is potentially breaching the by-laws, and the committee can issue an official 'notice to comply',' Ms Farmer explained. 'If the noisy resident is a tenant, the landlord should be informed of this behaviour as it's likely also a breach of their lease.' Ultimately, she said either the suffering resident or the owners' corporation can take the situation to the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal (NCAT) and seek a penalty of up to $1000 and an order that the behaviour stop. Etiquette tips to deal with noisy neighbours Meanwhile, Jo Hayes, an etiquette expert, has shared her tips on how to deal with noisy neighbours, while acknowledging that the Reddit post is on the more extreme end of the spectrum. But when it comes to more common noise complaints, Ms Hayes says there are a few general rules of thumb to follow. 'My starting point advice is to communicate the issue either by written letter or face-to-face,' she says. 'Always keep in mind the conflict resolution MO: be kind, calm and clear.' If the situation appears like it could turn volatile, she warns against face-to-face confrontation and suggests approaching a third party to intervene. Commenters share their thoughts Commenters agreed it was an annoying situation to be in, but many couldn't help but comment on the humorous nature of the song. 'I'm so sorry, but this is hilarious. What a stunning break-up song,' one commenter wrote. 'The funniest part is he is actually on rhythm,' said another, as someone else called the tune 'a bop'. 'Why did this have to come out after the hottest 100 of all time?' asked another. 'Publish the song on Spotify, make millions, buy a new house,' suggested a different user. Jokes aside, many people did share their advice for the man and expressed their sympathies about the situation.

I Was a Grilled Burger Purist Until I Tried This Easy, Indoor Method
I Was a Grilled Burger Purist Until I Tried This Easy, Indoor Method

CNET

time3 days ago

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I Was a Grilled Burger Purist Until I Tried This Easy, Indoor Method

I'm no air fryer rookie -- I've crisped, roasted and reheated just about everything in my beloved countertop convection oven, but I held off on burgers for one reason: I wasn't convinced it could deliver that perfect medium-rare magic like a grill or cast-iron pan. Turns out, I was wrong. If your backyard's missing a Weber -- and the smoky sizzle of burgers -- you're not out of luck. You can whip up juicy cheeseburgers, turkey patties and veggie stacks without ever stepping outside. One of my favorite tricks? Letting the air fryer do the heavy lifting. After air-frying a burger -- bacon, bun and all -- I am happy to report that making a bacon cheeseburger in an apartment-friendly air fryer is fast, clean and, as I found out recently, nets an equally juicy burger. Plus, you can easily get your air fryer burger medium rare via the super-convection heat that crisps the outside of food quickly without overcooking the inside. Here's how to make a bacon cheeseburger in your air fryer at home. How to make a cheeseburger in your air fryer Even a small air fryer can handle a full-sized burger patty and a few slices of bacon at once. Pamela Vachon/CNET I consulted a variety of different sources for timings and temperatures, but the process is about what you'd expect and similar to that which you'd experience cooking a burger in any manner: flipping the patty about halfway through for even results, with different timings depending on the size of your desired doneness. Read more: How to Tell When Steak Is Perfectly Cooked Without a Thermometer The air fryer works by circulating hot air in its contained chamber, so as a matter of interest, your air fryer burger will cook opposite to what you'd see on a sauté pan, with the exposed side of the burger cooking more quickly and becoming browner than the underside of the patty. Best Air Fryers: Cheap vs. Expensive Best Air Fryers: Cheap vs. Expensive Click to unmute Video Player is loading. Play Video Pause Skip Backward Skip Forward Next playlist item Unmute Current Time 0:01 / Duration 0:30 Loaded : 100.00% 0:01 Stream Type LIVE Seek to live, currently behind live LIVE Remaining Time - 0:29 Share Fullscreen This is a modal window. Beginning of dialog window. Escape will cancel and close the window. 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Best Air Fryers: Cheap vs. Expensive I tried two approaches, both with a quarter pound of lean ground beef, seasoned simply with salt and pepper. Air fryer cheeseburger recipe Shape a single patty of beef about three-quarters of an inch in thickness. Place in a greased air fryer basket and cooked at 370 degrees Fahrenheit for 10 minutes, flipping at the halfway mark. With about 2 minutes to go, add cheese to top of burger patty and place bun into air fryer basket to toast. Remove all ingredients and build burger on bun with toppings of your choice. Serve. I also tried the same amount of meat shaped into two, thin, smash-style patties for a total cooking time of about six minutes. (Double your cheeseburger, double your fun.) Making a great burger in an air fryer takes almost no skill and requires very little cleanup afterward. Pamela Vachon/CNET Air fryers require very little cleanup You can cook a burger to that perfect medium or medium rare with an air fryer. Pamela Vachon/CNET Well, that was easy. In both cases the patties cooked evenly, with an outcome that was medium in doneness. (You can easily experiment with your model and ideal burger patty size to find the precise timings for your preferred degree of doneness.) The hot air circulation even managed to produce a bit of caramelized crust on one side. Because I could, even with a small, single-household air fryer, I put in a couple of strips of bacon with the single burger patty, since crispy, spatter-free bacon is another excellent use for an air fryer -- not to mention an exceptional burger topping. Speaking of spatter-free, this is the single most compelling reason to employ the air fryer for burger prep. Your clothing, skin and stovetop all avoid the sizzling oil droplets that -- safely contained within the air fryer drawer -- like to escape the pan during regular skillet cooking. The smoky, greasy, meaty aroma, which is otherwise appealing at a burger dive, but not so much in a studio apartment, is also minimized. Cleanup was limited only to the nonstick, air fryer drawer. Read more: I've Been Making Bacon Wrong. Here's the Best (and Cleanest) Way to Cook it There are drawbacks to air fryer burgers With an air fryer, you can't smash the patties down as easily as you can on a grill or griddle. Pamela Vachon/CNET The air fryer isn't perfect when it comes to burgers, and the drawbacks as I experienced are twofold. First, since you can't really access the patty while it cooks, you're unable to smash it down in such a way that it doesn't shrink up significantly while cooking. Since an English muffin is the best burger containment method -- I will not be considering opposing viewpoints at this time -- this didn't bother me so much, since the resulting patty fits the intended vessel perfectly. Expect shrinkage when considering the size of your patty before cooking. Second, if you're like me and believe that a burger without cheese isn't worth eating, things get a little more complicated. Because of the air circulation action of the air fryer, it's hard to anchor cheese on top for a quick melt at the end of the process. My first attempt with a sliced single, an ideal burger cheese -- and I am a cheese pro, so don't come at me -- flew off and unhelpfully adhered to the surface of the air fryer drawer. Am I seeing double? Pamela Vachon/CNET My second attempt where a slice was halved and layered for extra heft was more successful, even more so when I moved the patties to the back edge of the fryer basket, which gets less aggressive air circulation. This may just be a quirk of my model, but I'd be prepared to experiment. I wouldn't even consider shredded cheese on top of a patty, but I absolutely would consider a cheese-stuffed burger, which should work nicely.

Woman Threatens to Move Out If Husband Allows Sister to Move Into Their 2-Bedroom Apartment
Woman Threatens to Move Out If Husband Allows Sister to Move Into Their 2-Bedroom Apartment

Yahoo

time20-07-2025

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Woman Threatens to Move Out If Husband Allows Sister to Move Into Their 2-Bedroom Apartment

With her husband and their toddler in their two-bedroom apartment, adding another person would be too much for this womanNEED TO KNOW A man told his wife that his sister needed a place to stay, and he suggested she crash in their two-bedroom apartment However, with their toddler sleeping in their second bedroom, the wife said no She told her husband that if his sister moved in, she would move outA woman found herself at odds with her husband after telling him that his sister couldn't stay at their apartment. In a Reddit post, the woman shares that she lives with her husband and their toddler in a small two-bedroom apartment. The second bedroom is reserved for the toddler, and they don't have a guest room or spare mattress. However, her husband's sister recently called and said she needed a place to 'stay for a while.' "No details. Just boom, she's on her way. She's not asking. She's telling us," the woman writes. "Apparently she got into it with her roommate and 'can't deal with the drama.' Her words." The woman told her husband "straight up no," not because she doesn't care about his sibling, but because they simply "don't have the space." 'Our kid wakes up if someone breathes too loudly near his room. I'm already running on fumes from the night feedings and the 4 AM cries. The last thing I need is another adult here adding to the chaos,' the woman shares. Her husband then told her that she was 'being cold," noting that family is family and "it's just temporary" — despite not knowing his sister's long-term plans. "I asked how long is temporary. He shrugs. Says a few weeks, maybe a couple months. No plan. No end date. Just vibes and guilt," she writes. "I tried to be clear. I said, If she moves in, I move out. I didn't mean it as a threat. I just meant I literally won't be able to function in this house if she's here full time," she continues. "I'm already stretched thin. This would break me. He looked at me like I'd just kicked his puppy. Said I was forcing him to choose." She noted that it's actually the other way around, as his sister is the one who put them in such a tough place. Still, "now things are tense" and her husband is "barely talking" to her, all while his sister keeps trying to "guilt-bait" him. 'I feel like the bad guy. Like I'm this evil wife keeping his poor sister out on the streets or something. But also I'm tired of always being the one who bends,' the woman confesses. Never miss a story — sign up for to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. Most Redditors came to her defense, applauding her for putting her foot down. 'She hasn't been evicted. Unless she is in actual danger then she doesn't need the help she is asking for. That kind of help is for emergencies not for not being able to handle the drama,' one person wrote, to which the poster replied, 'Thanks. I agree help should go to those truly in crisis. She's stressed, but this isn't an emergency.' Read the original article on People Solve the daily Crossword

What are the rules for storage cages and shared garages in apartments?
What are the rules for storage cages and shared garages in apartments?

ABC News

time18-07-2025

  • ABC News

What are the rules for storage cages and shared garages in apartments?

If you have ever lived in an apartment complex, you know that space and storage is often a challenge. Many complexes offer car parking, storage areas or individual storage cages. But there are rules around the items you can store and how you can use the space, which can be helpful to know for insurance purposes, and to avoid theft or upsetting your neighbours. The purpose of a storage cage is to allow for overflow of personal items that you do not have room for in your apartment, such as sports equipment, suitcases or even furniture. A storage cage is considered a "utility lot" under strata law, which means it cannot be used as a place of residence, an office or a shop. Joshua Baldwin is president of the Strata Community Association Australasia, based at Norwood/Kaurna, South Australia. He says the best place to check what is allowed is by requesting a copy of the strata by-laws from your property manager or landlord. "Usually there's blanket kind of by-law article in your strata that will govern the use of these areas. "And a lot of it relates to what's able to be stored and what's able to be used in that area." He says there might also be signs hanging in car park common areas that specify things like "no storage of flammable goods" or "no roller skating". Canberra/Ngunnawal emergency nurse Mark Gipson rarely uses his storage cage at his apartment complex after one of his expensive mountain bikes was stolen recently. "The lock wasn't even broken, basically, the padlock hinge was just ripped off, the lock was still intact, and the bike was gone," he says. He recommends that people don't put anything in the cages that they're not willing to have stolen. "Just make the room in your apartment," he says. "The building manager, he's put up a sign inside the elevator saying, 'don't put anything that's valuable inside the storage cage'." Storage cages are not "common property", so it's important to know that strata insurance does not cover damage or theft of personal property. Specific items of value would need to be insured under your home contents policy. The Victorian Police Service recommends not keeping anything of significant value, such as electronics, jewellery, or important personal documents in your storage cage. Storage cage theft is becoming a growing issue in high-density residential areas. The following steps are recommended by police to keep your items safe and secure: Experts say other things to consider are pest control measures to deter rats and mice, and storing items in waterproof boxes in case fire sprinkler systems are activated. Mr Baldwin says you need to ensure your storage cage is not being used in a way that's causing a nuisance to other residents. He says if someone wanted to use the area for another purpose not outlined in the bylaws, like woodworking for example, they would need to seek permission first. "It would be advantageous for that person to say, 'I would like to do x, y, z at this location and here's what I'm going to do to ensure that it's not a nuisance anyone else'," he says. "And ensuring that the strata committee and or the group of owners etc is being practical and reasonable and with their decisions." He recommends that strata groups also ensure they are also keeping policies up to date. "A member has told me that there's group with such old laws that it restricts the use of a horse and carriage through the common property," he says. "So, we would obviously encourage those bylaws to be updated with current measures." If you've noticed an issue with a storage cage or carpark area, Mr Baldwin says you should first reach out to the manager or landlord, then if you're not satisfied, raise a formal complaint through your state or territory's body corporate management act. "The strata managers aren't on site every day, so they don't know if there's 10 x 10-gallon drums of petrol in the cage and obviously contravening the bylaw," he says. "I think it's imperative that it's starts with a conversation."

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