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Our latest issue about water in our 14 lot Strata Scheme is that 1. Our developer/ original owner wants each lot owner ( only 4 out of 14 units are sold) to pay for 2 water meters for their property, one for the mains supply and the second for the tank water as when the tanks run dry, the mains water kicks in. 2. The developer/ original owner will not provide us with a copy of the water useage invoice as he says we have to pay 1/5 of the water rather than our 7% lot entitlement. As we have told him we will only pay our correct % he will not allow us to see the account and the water authority will not provide same as they say it is a privacy issue and although they know we live here ( we are individually rated ) the water usage account is in the initial owner/ developers name.
Office of Fair Trading delivered a seminar on Strata here last week but the presenter advised that she knew nothing about Schemes during the initial phase.
My questions are:
1. should we read the mains meter ourselves each quarter and deposit our % of our estimate of what the account would be, to the developers bank account?
2. He has stopped requesting that we pay him our quarterly levy so should we just continue to pay it into his account as we have been doing for all previous contributions?
He will not communicate with us.