Reply To: Strata poker, are you worse than us?

I think you know the one.
We have solar. We misrepresented on the application to get a grant for it, we payed way over what we should of for the small system that will never reach ‘payback’ and it would be hard to find a worse place to put it.
But it does mean we can make certain fuzzy warm feeling claims on a website.
The claims on the website are somewhat misleading as solar power was $17000 per kw ($US) of panel when the development started in 1982 yet the website claims we are a solar village. $17k  in 1982 is the equivalent of $67k today on the RBA calculator. Even today with affordable solar panels the SP is still a little like a Stalag as it is “lights out” not long after sunset for a number of owners because solar isn’t just a bunch of panels. There is also  the issue that most owners will never get to packback on their solar systems because when you factor in batteries and the electronics it sees the number don’t add up. Not a lot of greenness in this alleged green oasis.
The website only speaks to the dysfunction. If you go to the website today it still has the contact info as the 2018/19 SC and two of those people don’t even live here anymore.
Aspect of the strata plan if embellished and fluffed look good on paper if presented in a certain selected light but on the ground it is probably one of the most dysfunctional SPs in NSW.
A few shots of some bush land and a koala are enticing but beneath the sugar coating is not the flavor one might expect.