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by cjak 3507 days ago
> they can do things like check power and water utility usage

About 5% of Melbourne's housing stock was recently found to be unoccupied, using water usage data. It was closer to 19% for investment properties.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-04-18/call-for-vacancy-tax-o...