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First of all, I would get the email addresses of every other owner and tenant. Your strata manager will possibly tell you that you aren’t entitled to see them as they are private. This is not true and the email addresses will filter out people who are not active on the internet.
Then you ask if anyone is interested in setting up a socially engaed web page for strata owners and tenants.
You may not need any assistance to do this – it’s incredibly easy – but it’s better to get other people involved from the start.
When you have enough people volunteering to help you set up a little management group completely separate from the strata committee and off you go. Set up a website or Facebook page with an access password for residents only but make sure it’s a collective enterprise and not just one person’s “thing”.
It doesn’t cost much to set up and run a WordPress or Facebook page but make it worth people reading, with reviews of local shops and restaurants (and maybe even discounts and special deals from them).
Let people comment but moderate their remarks, initially at least, or it will turn into a forum for complaints and allegations, with the potential for claims of defamation.
And once the Facebook page or website is up and running, you email all the owners and residents gain to invite them to join.
It really is as easy as that, but don’t let it become a solo project because it will fall over as soon as that person leaves.
Another option is to set up a Whatsapp group and you can hear the founder of a successful one talk about it on our podcast HERE.