Email madness - $17k charged for five messages

FLAT CHAT WRAP

We’ve lifted a post from the Flat Chat Forum this week to illustrate two issues – one basic common sense, the other highly contentious.

The post explains how a strata manager managed to legitimately charge $17,000 for sending out five emails.

Obviously, our advice would be to read the small print in your strata management contract with a focus on what the worst-case scenario might be.

The other is the issue of whether the strata committee should have every owner’s email address – something way too many strata managers are not prepared to allow, regardless of what the law says.

And this is a case in point. Had the strata committee sent these five emails out themselves, it would have cost them nothing apart from the time it took to click on “forward”, “group” and “send.”

But you have to have the email addresses first. You can read the detail on how five emails cost $17,000 HERE.

Also in the pod, we look at the measure spreading across Australia to curb Airbnb and other short-term holiday lets to get homes back into the residential rental market.

We examine, the improved but still “least-worst” deal that will probably be accepted by enough Mascot Towers owners to make it happen.

And there’s a terrific 70 per cent off deal for a posh hotel near marvellous Maloolaba.

That’s all in this week’s packed podcast.

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Recorded by Jimmy Thomson & Sue Williams; Transcribed by Otter.ai; Transcription tidied up and sensified by Raphie.
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