letter from lawyer, on our sinking fund court case

you need to click on the image in order to see clearly the wording.

so again, all we can do now is praying & waiting, as the letter stated, they are given until 19/4 to settle with us outside the court, or else will proceed to next hearing.

our wish is get the money back ASAP, so we can start to plan for the blk J&K wall painting, for the common area as well, other areas needed money urgently is water tank lining & lift upgrade, may God almighty help us in the matter.

let's continue to pray....

thanks.

A Vista Mini Carnival

this year we decided to organise a Vista Condo Mini Carnival, on 14/4/2012, 7pm to 10pm.

since 3 years ago, we have made it a point that we will organise at least once a year a residents' gathering to build closer relationship among the vista condo residents, in order to build "A Caring Community" in the Vista Condo. So the initial plan is to do a party on the Earth Hour day, so that can kill 2 birds with 1 stone, ie to build relationship & at the same time to cultivate environment preservation thought to our peoples.

but somehow it can't take place this year as too many people will be away for the cheng-meng festival, so we decided to change the date to April 14th, and as it's not on the Earth Hour day, we will not call it Earth Hour Party like last year.

for this year's residents' gathering, we will do something quite different from the previous few party, more like a carnival, or more exactly, a mini carnival.

the biggest selling point will be a clown will be there, for the 2 hours he will perform some magic tricks & games to entertain his main audience, the Vista Condo Kids. so parents pls remember to register ur children for this mini carnival because we know that they will enjoy so much!

of course the adults will reap much benefits so showing up in the event, the lucky draw! so far we have received near to RM1000 cash sponsorship from various vendors of vista condo, at the moment the list of lucky draw items are planned like smart phone, microwave oven, high quality water filter, hampers, etc....total should not less than 15 items to be won! don't miss it....:)

and abt the food...hehehe....good one too! unlike previous parties, where all the food were prepared by a single caterer, but this mini carnival we will get different hawker people to prepare different type of food, for eg, satay seller will have his satay booth to serve satay only, then koay teow person will be frying the koay teow at different booth according to residents' order, like wise for ice kacang & others, we believe the quality will be much better & residents can enjoy the food which is just come out from the wok, yummy! for RM8 (or RM5 for kid) it is really worth for your money!

at the moment still waiting for company like DIGI & UNIFI to relpy if they want to set up their booths to promote their product, we also will contact drinks company (MILO, VICO, etc...) see if they will like to sponsor the drinks for the event & also do promotion for their other product, as we mentioned earlier, it will be a mini carnival, so the more booths the merrier....!

so again, would like to encourage our residents to sign up early so we can have better preparation, pls email us at vistacondo.relau@gmail.com, or call 012-5557658, or better still if u can drop by the management office personal to sign up for yourselves & your kids, so together we will build a caring community in vista besides having so much fun & enjoying the foods.

thanks.

General Updates

like to update our beloved residents few matters...

1) residents' gathering 2012 - sad to inform that the earth hour party would not happen this year, too many peoples will be away for Cheng-Meng, we would not like to spend money to organise the party but not many people can make it...., but instead we are planning for a gathering in April, most likely 2nd Saturday of April to have a "Vista Condo Mini Carnival", it's a carnival type of party, where a clown will hired to entertain the kids with magic trick & games, also plan to have lucky draw with pricy items, food booths like satay, keow teow, ice kacang, promotion booths like telecommunication product..., pls wait for the notice announcement....

2) sinkhole at entrance - after few weeks of filling in sands & renovation waste (stones....), we monitored & found out that it's no more sinking, then the contractor patch the hole with cement, hope it can last long enough, best still if it's a permanent solution, we have contacted some dept like IWK, but the problem is once they denied that it's their problem, then really not much thing we can expect from them.

3) falling trees at swimming pool - it's a third time tree at Jalan Paya Terubong had fallen into our swimming pool compound, each time we have a problem of getting the right party to remove it, when we called MPPP, then they will ask us to call JKR, as we called JKR, they told us as the tree had came into our place then we should remove it by ourselves, or even said we can get bomba's help, so as we get them to come in, we were told as it's not life threatening situation then they would not do anything...., previous 2 times YB Yeoh ppl pity our situation then they sent ppl to help remove the tree (even though it's not their responsibility), but this time we decided to call reporter to come in & to make it big, the purpose to get responsible dept to do their jobs, not jz remove the fallen tree, but also those trees & branches which r going to fall anytime.

4) extortion incident - we jz received complaints that recently extortion happened in blk k, where a young fella from blk k asked money from another 2 blk k resident at 2 different occasions, we managed to talk to one of the victim's parent, advised him to make a police report even though his kid didn't give much money to the guy, we also informed our resident who has good contact with police dept concerning this incident...., here we would like to advice all the vista residents that we should not tolerate this kind of criminal act, if it happen to any resident pls let us know immediately & we shall get police to do their part.

thanks.

sinking fund, a court case now.

we are taking legal action against developer, at last, it's not the option we like, but really have no other choice.

the case have been filed to the Penang high court, the first hearing will be on 14/3/2012, this coming Wednesday, few of us in MC plan to go there to follow up on the development(although first hearing will be handled by lawyer only), if residents also plan go there to give morale support, most welcome. we will put the detail (such as time...) in the comment section of this article.

we only decided to go ahead with the legal action after few rounds of discussion with developer, EXCO member & state assemblyman, as we see that the sinking have not been transferred to us at the promised time frame, we understand that if we continue to wait, at the end the still have no guarantee that we can get back the money, or if even it does, it may be another few more years....

so, consider the building need to be painted, the lifts need to be upgraded, the water tank lining need to be replaced, and as all these mentioned jobs need to be done urgently, we went ahead with this action after consulted few lawyers & even also few state assemblymen.

the greatest concern of taking legal action is always the cost involved, for as we are trying to claim back from the developer abt RM400K, the normal charge on the legal cost is abt 10%, or in our case can go up to RM40K, for this is something far more what we bear at the moment, but thank God, the lawyer firm we are engaging is one who have good sense of social responsibility, (by the way, not a small firm, also good experience one) they willing to come out with the package which is something we can afford, but not to disclose now, wait until the case is over, so not to complicate the issue.

we are now praying hard, may the almighty God grant us victory...., for those who plan to come, see u guys on Wednesday.

thanks.

tahun merdeka ke-3

it has been 3 years since Vista Condo residents manage our own common properties through the selected committee, ie JMB (yr2009 & yr2010) & MC (yr2011 until now), still remember this all started in yr2009 March, exactly 3 long years....

any different or benefit (or even harm) under the residents-appointed committee compare with those days under the developer? I would say generally pros more than cons, but also rooms for improvement, overall still better, again it jz my personal opinions.

(as once awhile still heard some unhappy residents complained that last time was better coz their visitors & friends can drive their car in, or they themselves can park their vehicles inside even though got outstanding SC payment, or no need swimming trunk in the pool....)

the biggest breakthrough is in the financial area, at the moment we managed to keep something like 25K to 30K in the bank account, even after we have spent so much money to repair those facilities problem which the developer had left to us, compare to those days under developer appointed agent, where they were running on the deficit, ended up no money to address even the urgent matter like water tank (almost all) leaking, generator also was not being service for long time until termite built their nest, lifts were in bad shape too...

another benefits we saw under the JMB & MC is some new facilities added into Vista Condo, namely CCTV, new management office, rental car parking lot (money making machine!), also get the external wall & lift lobby re-painted, guard house renovated, not to forget also the entrance shade is installed, car T&G system repaired & also the newly installed bike T&G to boost the security in Vista Condo.

i notice residents' attitude do change too, at the moment the collection rate is approaching 90%, compare to those days under developer abt 60%, residents also behaved better now for they have learn to park their vehicles at their own lot, unlike before parked as they like or at their convenience, no simply throwing of rubbish everywhere, no making noise at midnight hour like before, perhaps our residents feel more of the ownership in this place.

how abt the down side? i guess still have some, especially still can't employ a maintenance hand like Mr Cheah of Awan Setia, the chinese guy who almost available all the time whenever there's complaint from resident, for he can do electrical & plumbing stuff. at the moment our own electrician will take abt 2 days to attend to the complaint for the non-urgent case, but urgent one he will come as soon as he can, the same to the plumbing issue, can't attend as fast as those days, not too bad too coz the guy is from blk j, most of the time he is in Relau area.

want to say this, last 3 years has been a good journey as we have seen quite a improvement on our facilities, we believe with the cooperation of residents, the coming years we should see more positive things happening here, the vision of "Vista a Real Condo" is truly a attainable goal!

thanks.