Ah yes!!!…….a roster would certainly keep costs down, except when 1. Residents don’t do their fare share of tasks on their rostered day and slack off 2. Residents go away on holidays and have to find someone else to cover for them on the roster, or the task is left undone 3. Residents forget about bin night on their rostered day, and the bins don’t go out. Putrescible waste causes maggots to spawn and the bins are overflowing because they haven’t been emptied for at least a week. 4. What is one persons idea of cleaning stairwells and common property areas i.e a quick flick with a broom, doesn’t match up to another persons expectations. 5. Some residents are elderly or have mobility issues and can’t swipe with a mop. 6. getting someone who didn’t want to ‘take their turn and hire a cleaner at their own expense’ is fine in theory, but in practice would never happen, because all people are tight with money and in getting things done. 7. Rosters require co-operation, and the main gripe on the Flat Chat forum is a ‘lack of co-operation’ in strata apartment blocks.