hope for the best, prepare for the worst.

our attitude of running the management and maintaining/upgrading the facilities in Vista Condo is "hope for the best, but prepare for the worst".

it apply to almost all the area, maybe it's covering all :)

we have mentioned much on those big projects, such as lifts upgrade, water tank lining replacement, building painting, etc, hope for the best is that we will get the gov't fund & sinking fund soon, and we may get all these done in near future, of course this is best scenario, but how abt the worst scenario, which means if in the coming 10 year (or forever....) still no news abt the money? then we got to use our own sinking fund (collection of parking lot rental) to upgrade lifts in the coming 8 years, then perhaps another 10 years to pay for building painting, or water tank lining replacement.

other matters which also applied under "hope for best but prepare for worst" principle like,

best is monthly collection hit 95% so we will have more than enough $$$ to pay vendors, utilities bills, then still have so much surplus to upgrade existing facilities & add new facilities like gym & multipurpose court (plan this year for both), worst case we can think of is collection drop below 60% then we will need to tighten the T&G system to force defaulters to pay, which always end up some arguments (even shouting match) in the office or guard house.

abt the house rules, the best is every body observe all the rules, which at the moment we can see most of residents can follow most of the rules, the worst scenario we can imagine of this matter is 20% of residents refuse to follow, then we will get management staffs or guard to deal with them, more serious one will need to call police to help. but if we have 50% (or more) residents choose to violate most of the rules here, then we will need to leave, without residents' cooperation, the committee will not be able to continue their jobs, but it also speak of committee have lost touch with residents & don't understand their needs or feeling... :P

another area is vendors, best is of course all of them do their jobs well, our assessment on them now is overall abt 80% satisfaction, worst case if their performance drop below 60%, then change lah....

how abt committee, also the same, best is everybody do their jobs well, but then as we consider they also have other commitments like family, jobs, business, etc, so sometimes we can't push them too hard, but if come to the time when we can't give anymore time to this service, then we should leave & let other peoples to continue to serve the residents here.

thanks.