The card access system
One of the commentators wanted to send me back to Genting Court for the inconvenience caused to him and another claimed that the system is already a white elephant. I do not wish to go into an argument with these commentators. When you have been inconvenienced, natuarally you would react negatively towards the system. I don't really know whether these commentators are tenants or owners. Anyway, this is a free country and they are free to comment regardless whether the criticisms are inmature or irrational . One of the weaknesses of the the system is that during the peak hours, the system is not able to stop intruders from sneaking in. But then for Prima, all the break-ins did not occur at peak hours. They occured at the time when the place is very quiet.
Today is only the third day the system is running. As I 've said earlier, there are bound to be some hiccups along the way. The people at the management are working hard to solve all the problems. I received a few calls too. One was complaining that his children could not go to Block B for tuition because they are from Block C. The tuition teacher has to come down to receive them. Another complained that they had problems visiting their relatives from different blocks because all the cards do not share the same codes. I brought their concerns to the management. I was told that if they need to access other blocks frequently, they can write in to change the codes in the cards to enable them to go to other blocks. The system allows the management to do so but they will only deal with genuine cases.
I had a drink with the chairman and some other committee members last night at the mamak restaurant. We had a friendly discussion. One of the issues brought up was regarding this very rich old man who had converted some of the penthouses that he bought into mini hotels. He complained that he failed to get the required no of cards for his tenants. By creating partitions to increase the number of rooms to let, he has actually caused inconveniences to other residents. He has also caused more wear and tear to the lifts. The waiting time for the lifts has also increased. The worst is that those owners who live at the penthouses are not able to lock the lift lobbies leading to their units. I told the chairman that under no circumstances that we should make any exemption for him to get more cards. He could have violated the rules in the Deed of Covenant by creating partitions in all the penthouses that he bought.
I also told the chairman that we have not received the audited acc for 2005 and 2006. Without the audited accs , we don't really what is happening to our fund. We should give them a dateline to produce the accs failing which we shall lodge a complaint with the enforcement deparment in the housing ministry. I also suggested that we carried out a site inspection of Prima to understand our place better and to identify the areas that require our attention. The chairman is keen to see that Prima is well maintained and he is trying his best to see that it does. The chairman has my full support. With his business background and my experience in property management, we hope to do our best to see that the value of Prima properties will be maintained.
Goodnight and have a nice day!
posted by SEE @ Thursday, July 12, 2007
11 Comments
11 Comments:
Residents are not supposed to visit other blocks freely no matter for what reasons . If the management allow them to do so , it has opened an avenue for more problems in future . This is the inherent security feature of the card system , everyone must observe it .I hope the management tigthen the control in this respect
No amount of money should spend from the sinking fund.DATS is laughing because the residents spend money on the access card, so that they(DATS) can save more on the security manpower. Remember, a year ago, DATS already increased the maintenance fee to RM123. This access card project is another excuse to steal from the sinking fund. An honest Chairman should fight to stop the collection of sinking fund which was never in the SPA agreement. Wayback in 2002 before vacant possession, a certain Mr. See proposed to the developer to replace the perimeter fence to a brickwall fence. No cost auditing was done. As a result, 770 condo owners had to fork out RM287 each, totalling RM220,000.Upon obtaining CF, I found out the brick wall was only 500m long and probably cost less than RM100k.Now it's deja vu again with Mr.See as Chairman, pushing through the access card but damn bloodly silent on the continuing collection of the sinking fund.Let it be known the sinking fund is a dubious collection which should be stopped by the previous or existing Chairmans. For your information, the sinking fund already surpassed RM1million mark.The interest alone is enough to self-sustained the sinking fund. I appeal to Residents to expect a higher level of honesty, transparency and accountability from our so-called leaders. We must expel any persons in cahoot with the developer.
Can somebody clarify is sinking fund being clearly stipulated in the housing act or whatever agreements for condo owner to comply with ?
Are we suppose to pay forever ? Is the amount rightly computed ?
Hope to hear genuine answers with legal supporting .
Outsiders still able to come into the compound of swimming pool via the staircase and car park !
Can someone explain is this the intended way of the card system Or this has been overlooked ?
We are governed by the Deeds of Covenant since we do not have the Strata Titles. It is stipulated very clearly that you have to contribute to the sinking fund. Any condos without any sinking fund will definitely be badly maintained. Genting Court, Sri Pelangi and Setapak Ria are good examples. They don't have any fund to carry out any upgrading works like a repainting job and others. The values of these properties will remain stagnant too. Sinking fund is a very important fund for any condos. I guess you should volunteer yourself to be the chairman or a committee member if you fear that the developer is misusing the fund. No point making groundless claims or insinuating that the leaders of the committe are profiting from whatever thing they propose. If you think that you do not wish to pay anything, I will like to advise you to buy a landed property. If you are free, take your time too to study the audited accounts. Look for any unaccountable expenditures. Then, make a protest to Dats Management instead of claiming " ni ko sek loi, koh ko sek loi " ( this person eats money, that person eats money).
Any suggestion to stop contributing to the singking fund is suicidal. As long as the accounts is properly audited, we would know whether any expenditure which is not accountable. The lifts have a lifespan. We need money to replace the lifts. We need money for a repainting job. We need money for some repair jobs. Where does the fund come from if it isn't the sinking fund. Do not have the permanent perception that whatever Dats Management is doing, they do it for a profit.
if you don't pay, you get a perimeter fence. Which do you prefer? Can you imagine what prima will look like if it has a perimeter fence. I guess, it will look something like Genting Court. We are at the mercy of the developer. There is nothing much we can do at that point of time. The value of Prima's properties would have dropped by RM 10 000 if a perimeter fence was built and not to mention the security problems that it would post. Why talked about the past. Let's look to the future.
Many of my girls tenants in block C complain that the security guards intent to scared them especially at night when they are alone in the lift by coming out some scarely noice through the speaker in the lift.
There is nothing happen before the CCTV was installed in our lift, why the security guards do this to us, we pay them salary through our maintenance fee, they should be professional and protect us and not to scare us like this.
I hope our RA should give the security guards a warning by not scaring people like this in the lift all the time especially at night.
Thank you.
I'm shock to hear that our guards is frightening girls . Those girls being frightened should give more details as the date and time to the management to investigate such matter . Actions must be taken towards those culprits
We must make a complaint to UOA abt it. How can they do such things ... they are suppose to provide security services / protect not to scare the residents in the condo !!!
Please check this out. The Deed of Convenant never stated the amount for the sinking fund. Looks like suka hati what the Developer said. When no amount and no formula stated, we also can "sukahati" pay. For information to all, those SPAs signed before year 2002, never have the sinking fund stated at all. But developers do allocate 5% of the maintenance fee to the sinking fund. However, for the current SPA effective year 2003, the SPA states that the amount of sinking fund is stipulated as 10% of the maintenance fee. Do you think our Resident Committee is not even aware of this? We should ask ourselves why are we paying the sinking fund as much as 25% of the maintenance fee when the prevailing amount is 10%. Now we have a situation opened to abuse. In the name of security, our sinking fund is already been robbed.We should make sure that the FUND is intact, not to be abused. For the record, the Owners never received any justification for the sinking fund. The collection of the sinking fund, therefore, is highly questionable and may not be legal. I appeal to all Owners to press the Resident Committee on this issue, failing which we should report to the authorities. If you felt you are being cheated, please support by giving your view/comments. Lastly,a famous quote to reflect. < YOU CAN FOOL EVERYBODY SOMETIME, SOMEBODY ALL THE TIME, BUT YOU CAN'T FOOL EVERYBODY EVERYTIME>.
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