The sole remaining resident of the Palmer Coolum Resort on the Sunshine Coast is urging the public to leave bottles of water on the resort's entrance so she can clean her villa.

Clive Palmer bought the five-star resort in 2011. Each of its 64 villas are part-owned by up to four tenants-in-common.

Power and water have since been cut after disputes with owners over control of the resort's body corporate.

Former body corporate treasurer and resident Maree Frecklington said villa owners lost control of the body corporate after Mr Palmer's wife Anna and daughter Emily were installed as committee members earlier this month.

Life without running water

Ms Frecklington said living without utilities was tough, and was asking locals to help by dropping off a bottle of tap water.

"I can buy my own drinking water, but you'd be amazed how much water it takes to just flush a toilet and that might only be once a day. Then you need another bucket to hand wash all your crockery and cutlery," she said

"If I choose to take a bath I need two buckets of water."

Neighbour Angus Kennedy, who has contacted Ms Frecklington to provide water and help with cleaning, described Mr Palmer's actions as malicious.

"It makes my blood boil seeing what Clive Palmer has done down there," Mr Kennedy said.

"The place has just gone so downhill you can't even walk in there anymore."

Chris Shannon, the former body corporate chairman and secretary, said before tenants took up committee positions in November 2015 nothing was being done to improve the condition of the resort.

"Up until November 23, the executive of the body was the Palmer Resort, and they had done nothing for the betterment of the body corporate community," he said.

"In fact the community was going backwards.

"When you don't attend maintenance issues for two and a half years, it deteriorates."

Mr Shannon said, after his appointment as chairman there was a program in place to restore the condition of the villas, including removing trees that were overhanging villas and branches knocked on to roofs by storms and wind.

"We approved that, even though he [Mr Palmer] voted against it," Mr Shannon said.

Mr Shannon said the approval was possible as the tenants had a five-to-two majority against Mr Palmer and his lawyer Kane Jones.

But Mr Shannon and Ms Frecklington said the balance of power changed on February 8 this year, when the tenants were removed from the body corporate.

"Because he [Mr Palmer] has the majority of the ownership of the villas, he moved a motion to remove the existing committee from the executive," Mr Shannon said.

"We suspect now that there is a new committee, and the new committee is made up of Anna Palmer, Clive Palmer's wife, Emily Palmer his daughter, and Kane Jones his solicitor, that nothing will happen as it's just a move to be disruptive."

Ms Frecklington has vowed to continue to fight.

"I have a title and that gives me two quarter shares in two villas, a tenant in common with Palmer," she said.

"Why would I give up? He's not giving up, and he doesn't own the other three shares in my villa — he only owns one just like me."

Mr Palmer has been contacted for comment.