general updates as at 28/3/15

few matters like to update our beloved Vista Residents,

1) Foreigners hostel, the MC committees are all out to stop the any unit to be converted into foreigner factory hostel, at the moment soft approach are taken, office staffs have contacted owner to advice them not to rent their unit to be factory, in a short while committee members will be calling them too, also posters have been pasted at notice board for the same purpose, next we will do the banner to make it clear that factory hostel are indeed not welcome here. if these actions still ignored by the landlord then lift T&G system will be used to stop the trend.

2) Lift T&G system, we are at the moment getting more quotation & proposal for this, first round meeting on the system will be held this coming Sunday, besides the quality of devices & after sale service, we are also checking with vendor on the payment term, if the vendor is kind enough to give us longer term payment, ideally 12 installment spread throughout a year, then we can foresee this system will be installed very soon.

3) underground conceal pipe at car park, after few weeks of checking, getting vendors to quote, comparing quotations, negotiating the price & payment term, we are finally ready to replace the conceal main pipe which has collapsed a while ago, the location of the said main pipe is in between blk k & main rubbish room, this has caused water stagnant at the drain at the ground floor of blk k, work should be commenced early next week, slight delay of the earlier schedule of this week end, the whole project will cost us abt RM7000, warranty one year.

4) Fire insurance premium & quit rent 2015, as our residents have chosen the fire insurance coverage option during the EGM, and as the office is going to pay the 2015 quit rent early next week, the committee will meet this Sunday to decide how much is the total amount for insurance premium & quit rent which our resident need to pay, normally the office won't mark up the amount, but will round up the figure so that it will be easier for both our residents & office staff when payment is being made, we should be able to notify our residents on the figure next week, through the notice at the notice board.

Thanks.

EGM report

our EGM concluded smoothly on the wednesday, ended at abt 10.30pm, counted more than 60 unit owners attended the meeting, some came early some came a bit late, we feel very encouraged by the participation by our residents during the discussion time.

3 major decision made during the EGM, first is the fire insurance policy, after some discussion among the residents, & briefing by the agent Mr Lee, the option of coverage up to 250K get the most of the votes, so the renewal of the fire insurance policy will be arranged according to this decision, very soon the management will come up with the notice to inform all the Vista Condo residents concerning the premium & quit rent for this.

second major decision is abt the lift T&G scanner system, for this matter, we see almost all the residents who attended the EGM would like to see the system installed in all of the lifts, once our finance is in the good position to do that. in fact residents even proposed & agreed that all the entry point of the ground floor staircase should install the similar system too, so that it will be more effective to block those hardcore defaulters, irresponsible renovators, unauthorized outsiders & foreign workers from entering the premises.

the last one is the most explosive issue, the foreigners' hostel, we can feel the concern of our residents abt this, as we can see now more & more units have converted into foreigners' hostel. after much discussion on the options, residents voted to increase the service charge of the units which have become foreigners' hostel to RM500 per month! the management will contact the landlord to inform them abt the decision, and we hope that the landlord will feel the pinch & stop renting their units to the factory agent. we will also considering other options which will help to get rid of factory hostel, like to put up notices to show our disapproval on the hostel, to arrange for the police operasi, etc.

some other matters also be mentioned, but mainly for info only, include sinking fund, water tank project & building repainting.

thanks.

another flat 88?

a committee member reported that just in last week, another group of foreigner factory workers moved into Vista Condo, by the size of the group, he estimated maybe another 2 units in Vista Condo have turned into factory hostel :(

according to the unofficial statistic we have, there's abt 10 units now foreigners hostel in Vista Condo, our concern is it may increase if we don't stop the trend now, especially our location & rental are very ideal for factory worker to stay here, distance to their work place is short, even to amenities also convenient, like queensbay, BJ complex, metropolitan park, air port, market, makan place & pasar malam...etc.

few days ago chit chatting with the Chinese day guard, he stays in the apartment behind the Relau Public bank, the white color one, he said now in his place, most of the unit have turned into factory hostels, just like another flat 88 near our place, as all of know that, flat 88 and it's around apartments are full of foreigner factory workers & their hostels, one reason why their property value are much lower than other apartments, and needless to say, safety is another issue.

Vista Condo need to do something now before it's too late, we would like to invite as many residents as possible to come for the EGM this coming wednesday (18/3/13) 8pm to discuss how to tackle this problem, at the moment some idea in our mind includes to install T&G system in the lifts but not giving the card to the foreigner hostels, also to increase service charge on those units which become foreigner hostels, to sign petition and send to the hostel landlord to urge them stop renting their unit to the factory, to report to the government on these cases because Vista Condo as LMC (low medium cost) apartment should not rent it out as foreigner hostel.

so, if you are reading this, pls do come for the EGM, and bring your neighbors too, hopefully together we will find a good solution to overcome this challenge.

thanks.

EGM on 18/3/15

in last MC meeting, committees decided to call an EGM on 18/3/15, 8pm to decide on few matters.

first is the fire insurance, we have mentioned much in the last post concerning, so won't touch much on this topic now at this post, just to recap, it's to let residents to decide what kind of coverage they wish to have, higher coverage will come with higher premium, so most likely we will present to residents package of 200K, 250K and 300K for residents to decide.

second one will be the lift T&G scanner system, for we have checked around (especially in the blog) and found out most of the residents prefer to have the scanner system in our lifts, mainly due to safety issue as it will help prevent outsider to come to our blocks easily, but it also will help to force the hardcore defaulters to pay their outstanding service charge, especially those staying at 4th flr & above.

another benefit is to make sure the renovators to behave better, with this system in place, the management can bar the card which given by the house owner to the renovator for their house renovation if the renovator keep breaking our house rules. at the moment we only rely on security guard & management to do spot check & advice them if they break our rules, but very hard to stop them from entering into our place, so with the lift scanner system, we just need to bar the card then they can't function anymore.

we will also touch on the foreigners hostel topic, to find the way together with residents on how to deal with it, because according to law the owner of the unit can rent to anyone they like, but from our side we also need to do our part to protect local residents' welfare, some of the method we would like to propose to residents including not to issue lift T&G scanner card to those unit which have been rented out as factory hostel, but for doing that we will need to include it into our house rules, for that purpose we will need residents to approve in the EGM......

so, see you all in the coming EGM, thanks.