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Lady Penelope, on 13/3/17 you said ” It would be far more accurate to leave the water bill out of the levy assessment at this early stage and instead have the water bill divided according to the unit entitlement whenever the water bill comes in i.e. a separate bill. The owners should be given a copy of the scheme’s bill to enable them to verify that the amount charged to them is correct. This would be a more efficient and responsive way to ‘top up’ the Admin Fund.”
The owners in our Strata Scheme would be happy to do this, however, this developer believes that we should each pay for the water by dividing the account by the number of occupied apartments . As only two apartments had been sold in 2015 and 3/4 of 2016, he stated we owed him 1/3 of the water Accounts ( he occupies one apartment part time and only our apartment and one other had been sold). After August 2016 he claims we owe him 1/5 of the accounts as two more apartments had sold.
In terms of topping up the fund I am concerned that whilst we pay a reasonable levy $2400 pa, what is this for as we have never been given a budget. Does this mean that when the electricity bill for the common property is received, we pay our LE % of that, same for insurance , same for all other costs. The question is , if we have to pay extra money on top of our levy, what is the point of paying a levy in the first place?