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    Cosmo
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      At the recent AGM a proposition was put that we do away with common property water and electricity. Sounds weird I know but bear with me.

      Ours is a small strata complex about 40 years old. For water use, originally units were not separately metered but now are, there is now no common property water tap etc. For electricity use, we have one common property light. 

      As you can imagine we use no water (except if there is a leak prior to the unit meters) and little electricity. It was discussed at our recent AGM that the charges we get for ‘common property’ water and electricity as basically fixed as there is little or no usage. 

      One proposal raised at the AGM was to connect water and electricity to a unit. We would have to reimburse the unit ‘connected’ for usage but the strata would save the fixed costs associated with having common property water and electricity.

      Does anyone see any issues needing to be considered before doing this?

      One is do we need a by law ruling the ‘connected’ unit is reimbursed?

      Another is what is the best way to determine the amount of any reimbursement?

       

      Thanks

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