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Originally Posted by UFO
For those types of townhouses, I think of it as essentially a house with a shared wall and community coordinated services that your strata fee pays into.
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For me at least, this is pretty much the only benefit I see in a large townhouse. Strata is there to take care of "stuff". For someone who has no mechanical skills / too busy / not interested in home DIY stuff, the strata fee is the price you pay to have someone else (ie. the strata council) take care of all the dirty work for you.
As I have probably said many times in the past, the strata council at my building is very, very good. With the wifey and I already killing ourselves from work and stuff, we totally appreciate not having to worry about maintenance and fixing stuff when things break. Comparing that to my BIL, who is basically following the model that Hondaracer described, they are certainly bringing in more money to help with things, but looking after the house and the tenant on top of looking after his family all adds up to a crazy amount of work. In that regard, I do not envy him at all.
At the end of the day, I'd still prefer detached over strata though.