What applies here never arrives here.
What a house is obliged to do, allowed to do, or could be paid to do is decided by which council area it sits in, and almost none of it reaches the owner on the day it matters. Atty already knows the address, the rooms and the appliances.
Nobody posts you the rules
The obligations that attach to a house change on their own schedule, and the way to find out is to go and look — which means finding out you needed to look.
- State
- smoke alarms, pool barriers, statutory warranties
- Council
- bins, permits, tree rules, overlays
- This street
- bushfire zone, flood, heritage
- This house
- the only one of those that is actually your problem
- Smoke alarms are state business
- Queensland has been phasing in interconnected photoelectric alarms across staged deadlines that treat a sale, a lease and an owner-occupied house differently.
- Bushfire, trees and overlays are lines on a map
- Whether a tree is protected, or the house sits in a bushfire-prone area, is decided by planning maps a council holds, and nobody rings when the lines are redrawn.
None of that is advice, and none of it is stated here as though it applies to your house. The authority is your council and your state, and it always will be.
The rebate you hear about after you’ve paid
The hot water unit fails on a Tuesday. Somebody replaces it on Wednesday, like for like, because the decision has an afternoon to happen in. A month later someone mentions the scheme that would have covered a third of a heat pump.
Eligibility usually turns on postcode, property type and what is already installed — which is to say, on the exact contents of a record that already exists. The useful version is knowing on the Tuesday, before the plumber is booked.
It is not a neighbourhood feed
We are not building a place where neighbours post: no comment threads, no anonymous complaints, no photograph of a stranger’s parked car. That is a deliberate anti-goal, not a feature we haven’t got to yet.
The narrow thing worth delivering is official, attributable to a named publisher, and targeted not by suburb but by what the house actually has in it. Everything else is noise wearing an official letterhead.
None of this is built. There is no council integration, no publisher account, no rebate matching, no eligibility checking, and no hazard or emergency alerting — and no way to deliver any of it if it existed, because Atty sends no email, no notification and no push, ever. Nothing about a house has ever left the browser. What is real today is an address, coordinates, a timezone, and the weather there.
Two people we’d like to hear from
The first is an owner who has had that Tuesday: what you went looking for, and how late it already was when you found it.
The second is anyone inside a council, a utility or an emergency service who already thinks this is a problem worth solving.
Nothing to buy, nothing to supply, no agreement at the end of it — hello@atty.house.