Parasites Enraged

A push by penthouse and sub-penthouse owners to revamp body corporate fee structures has enraged the parasites living on the lower floors:

Airline pilot Michael Corr, who owns a one-bedroom unit in The Pinnacle, slammed the move by penthouse owners as "greedy and completely immoral".

"These guys are worth millions and they are trying to screw everyone else in the building," he said.

I would love to know how the desire not to subsidise someone else’s lifestyle is greedy and immoral.

... penthouse owner Nigel Neaves said the current body corporate fee structure was "inequitable and ridiculous".

He said he was paying 10 times more in body corporate fees than lower-floor residents to use the same facilities.

Sub-penthouse owner David Callard said too many unit owners had been "getting away with low body corporate fees for years".

To put all of this in perspective:

Mr Corr said if the penthouse owners were successful, their body corporate fees would plummet from about $30,000 to $12,000 while lower-floor unit owners would see their fees jump by up to 70 per cent to almost $7000.

So the penthouse owners would still be paying nearly twice as much as the parisites to use the same facilities. Who is really being screwed here?