challenge of keeping the momentum

if you ask what is the most challenging part in this task of being MC committee member, we would say not a financial problem, not resident's issue, not facility matters, but is to maintaining the momentum to serve the Vista Condo.

someone said to scale a great height is difficult, but to stay there even tougher! in our context here in Vista Condo will be, to improve our Vista Condo is difficult, but to maintain the higher standard (assuming have been archived) will need greater effort to see it happen.

give a example here, at the moment we do hv abt 80% residents paying their SC regularly, it is a good improvement compare to yr2009 which is only abt 60%, but how to maintain the 80% collection rate is actually more difficult compare to how to increase from 60% to 80%.

to increase from 60% to 80%, all we need to do is implement the T&G card for both cars & bikes, then after the early resistance had been overcame (some residents always hv their good reason why they should not or can not pay SC) then you should have 80% collection rate in the first few months after T&G system enforced, but the real challenge is how to make sure for many many many months to come, the 80% still there.

in fact it's quite a tough job to maintain it, few reasons, well, you will hear office staffs living in fear because intimidated or harassed by some of the defaulters, threaten to beat them, also some will say not even have money to buy food, where to get money to pay SC? others will say something like poor management service & lift always down so no need to pay SC, and Chinese new year or Raya or other festive season can be excuse too...

so MC members got to regularly urge the staffs & guards to make sure residents pay SC or else bar the cards after grace period had been given..., we hv done the calculation, almost every 2 months we need to check on this matter or else collection will be dropped to 60% again...

we don't blame the guard or staff because human nature will make them choose the easier & non confrontative path. of course the ideal situation will be they will have so much initiative to monitor the payment status & bar accordingly, but as we know well that the ideal thing very seldom happen.... :(

well, we just quoted the case of T&G system, how abt other area like guards, management service, pool, lift, cleaning service, electrical, pest control.....? these ares too, needed constant monitoring & reminding from the MC to see that the standard will be maintained by various vendors.


at the moment our momentum still ok, hopefully it can last long long while...

general updates...

few things to update our beloved residents,

1) we are in the midst of transferring TNB meter to be under vista condo, instead of developer, for which blk j has done last week, involved 12K as deposit, will do the blk k next week, expect to spend another few more thousand, so now pocket a bit tight, but we still keep abt 15K in bank account, for real emergency cases. (all the project need to freeze at the moment until have more money...)

2) we have replaced few more rubbish room window frame at blk j, for safety reason, coz few week ago some of them fell on the ground of ground floor, the rotten frame together some glass, thank God it didn't hit anyone, it happened at abt 10.30pm during a very thunder rain & very strong wind, now we inspecting all other window frame, very soon will do for the blk k.

3) abt the sinking fund, besides continue to nag to the director of developer company abt the money (include further court action), we also try to contact the receiver for our sinking fund, so far haven't got his reply, just last week we visited our lawyer, will wait for another 2 weeks then will consider what to do with the receiver.

4) haven't submit the application to the COB for the fund for building painting, lift upgrade, water tank lining as some of the document (especially the quotations) hasn't our hand, but again, expected date to submit will be on the Tuesday.

5) at the moment we have 3 insurance claims still waiting for the compensation money by the insurance company, they are lift rotor repair, T&G system replacement, blk k water pump replacement..., normally this kind of claim will take few months, we expecting total can claim abt 10K, or more...., now got new case, 2 weeks ago another resident langgar the incoming barrier, & it eventually broke, have informed the insurance company earlier, now waiting for their reply.

6) pithole at the main entrance sink again....due to excessive rain water, have contact IWK to look into it as it's connected to IWK manhole, at the same time getting our contractor to do our part.

thanks.

small breakthrough abt earliest S&P

since a week's ago, MC members again busy talking to lawyer, MPPP (COB) & vendors over various matter, but we would say all the discussion are done in the happy atmosphere.

one simple reason, we are almost get the complete copy of the S&P which carry the purchase price of RM80k.

we manage to get a resident's cooperation to send us his 1st owner's S&P, not in full set but the schedule, & it's clearly stated that it's 80K, so now this resident (also committee member by the way) is talking to his bank to produce a full set of document, we expect to see it next week :):):) thank God for His divine help.

so we waste no time, started getting vendor to quote us blk J & blk K common area painting, lift upgrade, water tank lining replacement..., hopefully we can get the application submitted by the end of next week.

well, we do not want to give false hope to our residents, to submit the application doesn't mean we will sure get the fund from the gov't, but at least there's hope because now we are qualified to apply, unlike before where we had tried many times but all kena tendang balik because we couldn't show them we are Low Medium Cost apartment.

(for those who are new in this blog, let us briefly explain, now we are applying fund from federal gov't & state gov't for these major projects, but they only accept application from low cost & low medium cost apartment, which are 42k & 80K or below respectively)

how long should we wait? not sure...., we do have some good connection with some gov't officer, & as election is near, hope these factors will make our chance bigger & hasten the pace of fund to to be channeled to us, but let's pray for God's further help.

abt the sinking fund, still a tug of war with the developer, latest news, as developer have been liquidated by one of his creditor, & the creditor appointed a receiver for the liquidation, we are now approaching the receiver to seek opportunity for the money to be returned to us, will update residents once got feedback.

well, some residents asked this question, since developer under liquidation, so should they collect money from residents who wish to collect their strata title, actually the answer is quite obvious (for those who have experience in company, legal & account matter), but at the moment the best person to answer this question is the lawyer who help you to do the strata title transfer....:)

thanks.

info needed - earliest S&P of Vista Condo

we are still negotiating with the gov't dept for the fund to paint the building & upgrade all the old lifts..., some residents may ask why take so long, like it or not, this kind of matter really test your patient, we call it running a marathon, some of these matters will take up to years to see the breakthrough...., the same apply to the sinking fund as well, it has been 6 months since we sued them, so looks like still long way to go before we see the money.

the latest development (on applying fund) will need residents to help, especially those earliest batch of residents moved into vista condo & staying at the lower floors, because at the moment the gov't only consider application of fund from those low cost & low medium cost apartment, to define this, low cost is for (or below) 42K, low medium cost apartment are those 80K & below, not the current market price, but the price they paid when get the unit from developer.

we have heard that vista condo at abt 16 years ago only sell at abt 79k or 80K (the BASE price), but charge RM500 more each floor higher & those facing swimming pool will need to pay few thousand ringgit more...., can the earliest residents verify this? if it's true then based on the calculation those 1st floor unit (not facing swimming pool) will only need to pay abt 80K, we hope it's true & really really really hope that someone can show us the S&P of it, and we will immediately knock at gov't dept's door to chase them for the money....

we have approached some unit at 1st floor but too bad most of them not the 1st owner & don't have a copy of developer S&P, but they willing to search their old file if by chance they do keep a copy of it....., we pray they will found it. at the same time just in case if you are reading this & have S&P show that the price is somewhere near to 80K pls contact us thru the email...many thanks in advance.

hope to see the developer's 80K S&P soon...., God pls help us.... :)